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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Amy Arnott, portfolio strategist for Morningstar.

And I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morning Star.

Our guest on the podcast today is Joy La Verde. Joy is the author of Who Will Take Care

of Me When I'm Old and the Complete Elder Care Planner. She also gives keynotes and workshops

on aging and elder care to many different types of organizations. In addition, she serves as a

consultant to senior housing providers, HR professionals, attorneys,

financial planners, clergy, and other members of the elder care industry. She's also been a family

caregiver to family and friends. Joy, welcome to the Longview. Thank you so much. We're happy to have

you here.

So we wanted to focus most of our time talking about your two books, the complete elder care of planner and who will take care of me when I'm old.

But we wanted to spend a little time first talking about your background.

You write that you've been a family caregiver most of your adult life

and have spent time taking care of your parents as well as friends.

What were some of the things that you learned from that journey?

Well, not only have I been a caregiver most of my life,

I have also been on the road for over 45

years talking to family caregivers, and collectively I have started to see a theme, and the

most important one right now is the fact that the people who are attending these programs of mine

are not only family caregivers, but explaining to me that they are wondering who's going to do

that for them. So the whole conversation about family caregiving is actually evolving.

It's no longer I'm going to take care of somebody. It's also who's going to take care of me.

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