The process of aging is almost as inevitable as death and taxes. You can help your children with all three—your aging, death, and taxes—by getting organized and planning ahead. There are a number of online and paper resources to help you and them in doing so. Here are 10 of them:
- TheConversationProject.org: Started by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman and now run by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, The Conversation Project provides many tools for families to discuss end-of-life wishes.
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EngageWithGrace.org: Like The Conversation Project, Engage With Grace focuses on communicating end-of-life wishes, but streamlines the discussion to five questions which it presents on a single PowerPoint slide.
End-of-life planning can get complicated and overwhelming because it has so many facets. There's estate planning to make sure your savings and other assets go to the people you want with as little trouble and cost as possible. And there's health care planning to make sure you get the care you want and not the care you don't want. With both, your planning can be as bare bones or as detailed as you choose.
