The Caregiving Conversation Families Keep Putting Off

Starting the Family Caregiving Conversation: How families can discuss care wishes, responsibilities and the financial side of care before a health crisis forces decisions.

Many families know the caregiving conversation is important - but keep putting it off because it feels uncomfortable, overwhelming, or simply too far away to worry about. The problem is that when a health crisis does happen, families may suddenly have to make major decisions without knowing what their loved one actually wants.

Chris can explore how families can start these conversations while everyone is still able to participate and have a voice. What kind of care would a parent want? Who could realistically help? What responsibilities might fall on adult children or other family members? And perhaps most importantly, how will the family approach the financial side of care?

This conversation can also look at where families should begin when they don't yet know what support may be available, what questions they should be asking, and how to move from a vague concern about the future to a more practical plan.

About Chris Maduri

Chris Maduri, podcast guest

Retirement & Life Transitions Expert

Nearly 20 years Helping people prepare for retirement4 Pillars of sustainable retirement planning3 Buckets in his wealth-building approachSales Director Named by Financial Marketing Group in 2013

Chris Maduri has spent nearly two decades helping people prepare for more than retirement - he helps them prepare for the life that comes after work.

Because retirement isn't simply the day the pay cheque stops.

It can change your identity, your marriage, your relationship with your time, your health, your family and your sense of purpose. And Chris believes that's the part of retirement planning most people don't talk about.

Chris began his career just before the 2008 Financial Crisis, an experience that fundamentally shaped how he thinks about risk. Watching carefully constructed plans come under pressure taught him that assumptions can fail - and that a retirement plan needs to work in the real world, not just on paper.

But after nearly two decades in the industry, Chris has come to see that financial preparation is only one part of the equation.

The bigger question is: What are you actually retiring to?

Chris describes retirement as the "fourth quarter of life" - and, if you've done things right, a little overtime.His work explores what it takes to make that chapter meaningful: having financial confidence, maintaining your health, protecting the people you love, staying connected to a sense of purpose and knowing how you want to spend the years you've worked so hard to create.

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