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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morningstar.

And I'm Jeff Battack, Chief Ratings Officer for Morning Star Research Services.

Our guest on the podcast today is Cameron Huddleston. She's an award-winning personal finance

journalist and author of, Mom and Dad, we need to talk, how to have conversations with your

parents about their finances.

She was a caregiver for 12 years for her mom who had Alzheimer's disease.

She currently is the Director of Education and Content at Careful, a new service built to protect

aging adults' daily finances. She received her BA and journalism and Russian studies from Washington

and Lee University and her master's in economic journalism from American University.

Cameron, welcome to the Longview. Hi, thanks so much for having me. Well, thanks for being

here. We're excited to talk about this important topic. So your family story and especially your mother's

illness, her diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease played a pivotal role in your focus on how

families can better communicate and deal with financial matters as older adults age. So can you

describe that experience? Sure. So money was not really a topic that was discussed in my household while I was growing up.

In fact, my dad always said, don't talk about money.

Don't ask people about their incomes.

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