Holidays and families A little jingle to get you going…… T’ was the fight before Christmas, When all families know, It’s better to forgive than tell them to F. O., Mom probably liked you better, if memory serves, So while I am a P.O.A., she will get what she deserves, All families are strange, of [...]
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December 14, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates Staying in the hospital over any holiday period can be difficult. There is often a desire by families and hospitals alike to move people out of the hospital and back into the community. One of the all too common themes is the push to have patients [...]
December 6, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates Holidays are partially about tradition and in keeping with that theme, I have reprinted a holiday recipe that I wrote and was printed in CARP magazine. It is getting to be that time again and holidays are around the corner. Do your parents live in another [...]
November 28, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates There has been much discussion lately regarding end of life decisions. Most recently the Court of Appeal of Ontario released its decision in June 2011 in the case of Rasouli v Sunnybrook Health Science Centre which looked at whether or not removal from a mechanical ventilator [...]
Family Feuding, October 4, 2011, Hosted by Dr. Gordon Atherley Audrey Miller is the founder and Managing Director of Elder Caring Inc. Dr. Renee Ruiter-Kohn provides various services including individual case management, interpersonal counselling and vocational counselling. Both have personal experience of family caregiving. They describe their work and the services they provide for families [...]
September 28, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates I was interviewed this week for a segment on Family Feuding on the Voice of America, Family Caregivers Unite program. A serious topic and one that cannot easily be resolved. This interview comes at an interesting time of year, a time of reflection and of hope [...]
August 24, 2011; By: Pauline Morris All About Estates Pauline Morris, one of our social workers and a capacity assessor wrote today’s blog. A lawyer called asking about having his client assessed for Capacity to Manage Property. We decided that this kind of assessment wasn’t needed, and here’s why. The client, a 73-year-old man with [...]
August 16, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates Have you ever wondered what would happen if you didn’t have a family member who could assume the role of power of attorney for care and finance? Who would look after your best interests and keep your personal wishes at the forefront? Family doesn’t have to [...]
July 12, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates Last week’s Globe and Mail (July 5, 2011) had an interesting article on estate insurance. It discussed the trend that estate holdings have become more complicated as amounts are often larger and investments diverse. This is especially so for those older individuals who lived through the [...]
