Navigating Financial, Legal, and Emotional Challenges

As our society faces the emotional, financial, professional, and spiritual pressures of caring for aging or sick parents, spouses, young children or other loved ones, many in our Notre Dame community may need support and a practical roadmap forward. Caregivers are often tasked with making significant financial, legal, and medical decisions when caring for an aging loved one. Listen in to a conversation with Edward Augustine ’87, Zesha Holyfield ’01, James Riley ’94, and Rochelle Valsaint ’95 about essential topics like protecting your loved ones’ assets, navigating long-term care options, and understanding the general legal tools that are at your disposal in consultation with your own private licensed counsel in your local jurisdiction, such as trusts, powers of attorney, and advance directives, as well as balancing the emotional journey of caregiving with the practicalities of managing finances and general estate planning.

Join the Black Alumni of Notre Dame for Caregiving with Dignity to:

• hear Domer caregiver stories,
• gain insight on caregiver mental health and wellness issues,
• get tips on financial and legal issues to consider when creating a caregiving plan for your loved one or yourself,
• navigate cultural concerns around making challenging care decisions,
• explore  how to preserve generational family history and wisdom, and
• learn how to develop an all-hands-on-deck/nobody-left-out family caregiver approach.

Caregiving with Dignity is co-sponsored on ThinkND by the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience.