Rachael Wonderlin
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Rachael Wonderlin is a dementia care consultant and owner of Dementia By Day. Author of "When Someone You Know is Living in a Dementia Care Community"
Rachael Wonderlin
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Rachael Wonderlin
9M ago
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Rachael Wonderlin
9M ago
Transcript:
Today’s topic is all about Money + Dementia, as in, how do you take over finances when a loved one living with dementia can no longer handle it themselves?
At a conference, I got a really good question and it inspired me to do a post. And this question I got was about a checkbook. So mom has a checkbook and we don’t want her to have a checkbook anymore because we’re kind of worried about maybe like who she’s writing checks to, right? Or how to use it. She’s trying to put it away in other places. We don’t really want her to hide it somewhere and us not be able to find it. So he sa ..read more