Hey CarePartners, It is vital to make plans for your "later in life" care long before you need it! This should include your Living Will, Powers of Attorney, and All your Advanced Directives, but there is more! Although most of us plan to always stay in our own homes, statistically that will not be the way things go. You need to be proactive and make a plan for if and when your situation changes to assure you are prepared financially, legally, and with your personal choices in mind. In this podcast we will review the signs of physical and mental decline which will indicate that if we continue to live we will eventually decline and need more help. Types of help might be homecare, transportation, placement assistance or even care management. Then there is the money part which works better with great planning. In America we are blessed with a medicaid safety net if needed but most people would like to be in control when possible. This brings us back to the title of this podcast, Seniors Need to Know Their Plan B..