How do attorneys find their way to Life Care Planning? For Emily Monarch, founder of Elder Law Solutions, a Life Care Planning Law Firm outside of Louisville, Kentucky, the path began with a position at a big law firm. “I started out practicing labor and employment law, but soon realized that it wasn't for me,” Emily remembers. “When my son was born, I decided to become a stay-at-home mom and delay practicing law until my kids got older.”

In this three-part series, we are following Diane Peabody, R.N., an elder care coordinator at Applegate & Dillman Elder Law, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Carmel, Indiana, as she works with a family to relocate Jolene, the family matriarch who had been living in Florida, to a nursing home near her sons in the Indianapolis area.

In the first article of this two-part series, elder care coordinator Cindy Hutson, R.N. shared tips for dealing with unsolicited critical comments from friends and family members who are not involved in an elder’s day-to-day care. In this article, we’ll look at how caregivers can develop the emotional ninja skills needed to manage push-back from critics, well-meaning or not. 

In the first article in the series, which appeared last month, we followed Diane Peabody, R.N., an elder care coordinator at Applegate & Dillman Elder Law, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Carmel, Indiana, as she worked with a family to prepare for the relocation of Jolene in Florida to a nursing home near her sons in the Indianapolis area.