Have you received "the call" - yet? Someone in your family, or a close dear friend needs you NOW because they have had a crisis...or perhaps you received "the call" because someone in your family, or a dear friend has passed on / died / "translated". Whatever you want to name "the call" not many ever learn "what to do next" - it's sort of assumed you will "just figure it out when the time comes". But - how do you figure it out without a) losing your job or career, b) becoming financially unstable yourself, c) taking away so much time from your family - your spouse, significant other, or kids...that they hardly know the "new you" who is so overwhelmed, upset, and stressed out from so many sleepless nights - or irregular time schedule that you are one jangled nerve away from being extremely rude, to throwing things, or having a total melt down?
No longer does this "trial by fire" life-changing event or series of events have to be a "figure it out when the time comes". In my book "Caregiver through Executor: Know BEFORE You Go" - I am giving you what I SO DESPERATELY NEEDED when I got "the call" - three times - once for my mother, twice for my father. I lost so much time tracking down information that "should have been" easy to find, but wasn't.
As a research writer, investigator, community trainer and speaker, my instincts were "I need to save this information now that I have found it. I can make someone else's journey so much easier." Many days, because things happened so fast and days were so long, this meant writing on envelopes, scraps of paper, making notes on my smart phone, and when times were calmer transferring notes over to my notebinder, or at least getting notes into a zippered pouch for safe-keeping. I'm an organized person, but when calls come in on top of calls, reality of being organized in a pretty way - sometimes just getting notes down and keeping them has to 'do'. I had to find an easier way for other people to do this. I was out of state from my mother in 1987, and came back and did what I could do. She died. I couldn't get things done fast enough. I needed information in advance I didn't have. I have "survivor's guilt". With my estranged father in 2008, I got "the call" while living out of country. I didn't want to come back. But I was "the only one" - I was the only child. He had two deceased wives. His sibling family had abandoned him 'for cause'. Yet, even the family members we don't like...you still get "the call". (In my father's case, advancing years and a perceptive doctor figured out a medication that balanced him out and he was given the gift of life to be a nicer person. By the time he died at 93, I was glad I had helped him and got a glimpse of the man he was supposed to have been the first 72 years.)
My Mission is to make your job easier, faster, less expensive when you get "the call". You deserve that. Most Caregivers provide care 3-5 years...even if you aren't caring for your person in your home, you are caring in your heart - phone calls, record keeping, perhaps power of attorney responsibilities or taking on court appointed guardianship. The more you know in advance, the more likely you won't lose your job, you career, your business (if you are self-employed, like I was), and you will be able to better protect your own finances, and health.
This is a topic, let's face it, it's depressing, and a complex topic. Think of it like "having a baby: you prepare". If you prepare for the beginning of life - why not the end of life?
My book, my research with government offices, healthcare facilities, skilled nursing care, veteran's affairs about benefits, government and private loan and grant programs, is my gift to you. As I find out new information, I will pass it on to you. As information changes, it will be updated on my website, and/ or changed for upcoming editions.
"Caregiver through Executor: Know BEFORE You Go!" is a Program. It's designed for anyone who may get "the call", and it is especially designed for anyone living out of state or province, or country, who has family in the U.S. or Canada. I believe my book and program should be a "required course" in the senior year of high school, and if not then, in first year college and university. In the past year, I have met three young adults - 19- 22 years old who either recently had a single parent die and they were an only child, or they were the child of a single parent who died when they were still in high school.
Likewise, many times one or the other spouses tracks assets and insurance information and may not tell the other "where things are". Years ago, a widow named Lynn Cane wrote a book called "Widow". Her husband, a lawyer, died tragically in his early 30s leaving her with three or four kids, and she didn't know where any papers were or what they had. It turned out as I recall, he didn't have life insurance, so in reality all he left her with was debt.
Seniors many times don't know how to access additional benefits, or veteran's benefits for widowed spouses.
That's just the paperwork, assets, and insurance side. My book covers health issues, too, such as all the different "definitions" of "disabled".
My mother's caregiving and estate issues were simple. My father's were more complex as time went on, and other than leaving a house with structural problems and no life insurance and debts, it is still fairly simple.
While I will share what I went through, my book is about meeting YOUR needs.
My "expertise" to write this book comes from my professional skills as a researcher/ writer and investigator. My "gift" in this lifetime is "I am a Codifier". I see vasts amounts of random information, and see how it can be put together into an easier system to follow, so others have an easier experience.
In all, my book runs about 600 - 700 pages, it is in final editing right now. It is a Desk Reference - which means check the Table of Contents or Index and find what you need: sample forms, sample letters, address and phone numbers, what questions to ask, what information to track, etc.
I'm here to serve you at this point. Use my investigation and research skills - I am answering questions and will answer questions that keep coming up, or that I think will help others, too.
Author's Bio:
Prior to her father's passing in late summer, 2013, Caesi Bevis's professional work was as a Research Writer, Professional Investigator, Legislation Analyst, and Board Member of several nonprofits. She founded Tiger's Eye Society, and remained as the President for 10 years. The organization researched and communicated information on benefits, grants, programs, and rebates for people on disability and their caregivers, as well as running a 24/7 Hotline. Her professional research included: research with government (federal, state and provincial) offices, social worker organizations, banks and credit unions, the VA and Canadian Veteran Affairs, and by interviewing many, many people going through Caregiving and estate planning and estate settlement issues.
Additionally, Caesi Bevis consulting to legislature on pending Bills related to disability, nationally as a volunteer research supporter for a Bill for the set up for the national organ donor registry for Canada, and sat on an Immigration Policy Forum for Canada. She was active politically assisting on Prime Minister Kim Campbell's campaign prior to her being elected. In California, in the 1990s, she was on the speaker's platform for Ross Perot. For five years she was licensed for investigation work, and to this day remains on-call for "expert witness". Her business consulting work since 1993 has primarily been in forecasting and competitive intelligence for businesses and nonprofits, as well as training on disability benefits, privacy laws, and asset protection for nonprofits, charities and churches, and fiduciary training for their trustee and director boards.
Keynote speaking: Ms. Bevis is available for keynote speaking on: Crisis Planning and Action, Obamacare Fine Print (asset protection), Board Training on "fiduciary capacity" and "asset protection" for nonprofit, charity and church boards.
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