Services For Caregivers and Adult Children

Working full-time and managing your own life is stressful enough, but if you have power of attorney or other responsibilities for another person’s life and care, you have a second full-time job to manage. I will help you:

Understand Your Responsibilities

  • Understand the documents and paperwork you’re receiving, explain why they’re important and what you need to do with them (Important: I am not licensed to practice law in North Carolina and cannot and will not provide you with legal advice.)
  • Provide you with checklists of the documents you’ll need to fulfill your responsibilities
  • Create manageable systems for tracking medical appointments, Medicare and secondary insurance payments and co-pays and pharmacy bills

Get Organized

  • Set up a system for processing and managing all the extra mail you’re getting on behalf of your loved one
  • Organize documents and paperwork to be sure you meet deadlines and other legal requirements and that you can find what you need when you need it
  • Create an efficient and effective filing system

Tip: Expired Medications: Still Good or Not?

Clients often tell me not to throw out expired prescriptions or over-the-counter medications because they’re still “good.” Is that really true, I wondered? I asked my pharmacist, Alice Dillard, at Triangle Pharmacy/True Value Hardware on Highway 54 in Durham (www.triangletruevalue.com). The answer: not true.

According to Alice, by the time a drug reaches its expiration date it has lost ten percent of its effectiveness. After that, the drug continues to degrade until it loses all of its effectiveness.

What does that mean? As compounds within medications breakdown they can become toxic. That means an expired drug may hurt or kill you. If you take an expired drug, “you have no idea read the entire article»»

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