What Joe Altepeter of EngAGE Inc. Taught Me About Aging in Place Without Isolation
You can walk through your parents' house and check every box. The stairs are manageable, the yard is under control, the bedrooms are the right size. And you can still miss the one thing that will hurt them most. When I sat down with Joe Altepet...
The Question Marty Stevens-Heebner of Clear Home Solutions Asks Before Anyone Packs a Single Box
A senior move rarely falls apart over boxes or bubble wrap. It falls apart over a torn recipe card, a broken hammer, or two hundred paper clips nobody can quite explain. Those are the things that stall a family for months. I talked about...
Robbyn Battles latest Podcast Guest Angela Fairhurst of Geri-Gadgets
A cut-down kitchen pot holder reached a mother that four years of children's toys could not. That single moment, not a boardroom, is where a whole product line was born. On my podcast, I'm Just Sayin', I talked with Angela Fairhurst of G...
Robbyn Battles latest Podcast quest Tiffany Piquilloud of Challenge Center
Gravity never takes a day off, and neither does the question of what happens to a person's independence once a doctor says therapy is done. A parent comes home from the hospital with a photocopied sheet of exercises. Insurance paid for what ...
Robbyn Battles Podcast latest guest Katie Brandon of Pasadena Village
At two in the morning in Altadena, the power went out. A woman who had stopped driving three years earlier couldn't lift her garage door, and no official ever called her street. The person who got her out was the neighbor she plays ping pon...
It’s Official: The Robbyn Battles Podcast, I’m Just Sayin’, Has Launched
It’s Official: The Robbyn Battles Podcast, I’m Just Sayin’, Has Launched If you haven’t heard, I have a podcast, and I’m having a blast. I’m Just Sayin’ | Let’s Get to the Point with Robbyn Battles has become one of my favorite...
Alzheimer’s The Conversation Families Wait Too Long to Have
The decision about your parents' house usually gets made by a fall, not by your family. Tuesday's blood pressure pill slips into Wednesday. Two on Wednesday, none on Thursday, dizzy, down. Now the house, the money, and the care are one rushed d...
How to Turn Your Biggest Reverse Mortgage Fears Into a Retirement Strategy
Every family I work with eventually asks me the same question: how do we keep Mom in her house without draining every dollar she has? That question is exactly why I sat down with Christina Harmes of Barrett Financial Group's Reverse Mortgag...