In this week's episode:

The continuation of Steve Frank’s family story of his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and treatment.

Did you miss part 1? Click here

What you will learn in this episode:

• Steve continues the story of the emergency move of his mother out of the house to an Alzheimer’s memory care facility;

• How many Alzheimer’s patients are healthy in body and what the effect of that may mean financially to families;

• Steve’s experience when his mother insisted on coming living with him instead of remaining at the facility and what he learned was the correct way to cope with this;

• The challenges of how the effects of anesthesia affect an Alzheimer’s patient;

• How, despite the intention and promises to never sell their parent’s house, that is what happened and how that ultimately was the right thing for his parents;

• How, despite his mother’s apparent lack of recognition of most things, she consciously attempted to refuse food;

• Steve’s feelings on letting go;

• How long term care insurance played a major role in his family’s experience;

• How generational feelings, especially relating to what generations see as issues of “pride” can obstruct or change financial decision-making;

• The pain of breaking promises but how breaking those promises may be the best thing to do;

• His experience as a member of the “sandwich generation” of moving his mother to a long term care facility at the beginning of the week and his son to his college dorm room at the end of the week;

• And the biggest lessons to be learned from making hard decisions!