Those Nursing Home Visits.

I have posted about nursing home visits before.  TLD attorneys are available for visits off-site where necessary to assist our clients with estate planning needs. There is a consultation charge/travel fee in most instances for these services.

Having made a few more visits to nursing homes and assisted living facilities, I am continually facing individuals who are scared and facing major issues in their lives that they have never faced before.

Having an attorney come to their room in a facility is not an ideal situation for the client when they are this scared. It affects their decision making, it makes them more hostile and nervous about executing various documents that make an estate plan.

What would be ideal would be to make your estate plan complete while you are able to do so on your own accord and visit the attorney of your choosing  rather than working with an attorney selected by your family or facility management. Sure, you can always reject the attorney that comes to your room in a facility, but this rarely happens. Once the attorney is there, it's hard to say no thanks because the services the attorney is providing is something you now sorely need.

I am posting about this because nearly at some point in everyone's life, a durable power of attorney or advance health care directive will be needed. The same for a trust and a will. Put it on your list of things to do and tell yourself you will have it completed by the year end.