Anyone else's parents have timeshares. My mom is up to 3... All in the same bldg so she can stay there 3 weeks out of the year. We have the paperwork setup well I think but I'm not looking forward to inheriting them if she doesn't get rid of them eventually.
My father had a stroke two years ago. In the hours after, I was standing in a hospital hallway and I couldn't answer a single question the doctors were asking me.
Who's his primary care doctor? What medications is he on? Does he have a power of attorney? Where's his will?
I didn't know any of it. Not one thing.
I spent the next several months untangling what could have been a single afternoon conversation.
I wrote down everything I learned — the questions, the exact
words to start each conversation without making your parent feel ambushed, and what to actually write down.
If you're in that situation where you know you should have this conversation but don't know where to start, here are the 5 most urgent ones:
Do you have a durable financial power of attorney?
Do you have a living will or advance directive?
Where are all your important documents stored?
What medications and supplements do you take?
If you only had a few months to live, what would you want
it to look like?
Start with one. Ask it this week.
Long story short he survived and I now have all of this information for both of my parents and my wife's parents. I hope we are never in that position again, but we are now prepared for it. Just felt like sharing this today.