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Needy Adult Children and Narcissism signs of the Aging Dysfunctional Family-

January 20, 2021

7th Sign of the dysfunctional Family -Narcissism

– One or more adult siblings has an “it’s all about me” attitude. It could be the aging parent or a midlife sibling. With aging parents, all siblings may have resented this self-absorption all their lives and have a love/hate relationship with older Moms or dads. With siblings, the other brothers and sister resent this, especially with parent care.  The self-absorbed sibling either does not participate in solving sibling or aging family troubles but just makes them worse.

Devalued Child Entitled but Servile Adult.

As a kid, the adult child of a narcissist parent was devalued in the parent’s eyes so that the now aging parent can feel superior and powerful in the world. These children mature into adults who are emotionally impoverished, inflexible, and needy.

As a geriatric care manager, the adult child presents as entitled. As clients, these adult children fear that unless they make inflexible demands, they will receive nothing. “ Get my mother into a concierge wing of a hospital by tomorrow”

An adult child of a narcissistic aging parent will present as nasty, aggressive, and devaluing of the service provider. Or they could be essentially insatiable and easily injured by the helping professional. The adult children of narcissistic entitled families are also often angry and frustrated at having to give care to a parent or parents whom they experienced as ungiving, demanding, intrusive, overpowering, and needy. They are members of an ultra dysfunctional aging family.

The eighth sign of dysfunctional aging family- needy adult children 

 Baby boomers must evolve beyond the needy child he or she has been, for that fiscal, emotional, and social support, to the adult who supports his parent. Adult Children of aging parents in the 21st century not only confront the delay of their own needs when their parent’s aging and reliance call them but confront their own future and very much more immediate loss of the central figure in their lives, their own parents.

Some don’t- especially in the dysfunctional family.

These adults feel starved for parental affection they never received and often seek affection from professionals and other people in their lives to compensate for the care they didn’t receive as children.

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Can Retirees Who Worked Hard All Their Lives Afford Long Term Care?

March 15, 2020

NEW TYPE OF FAMILY THAT CAN AFFORD LONG TERM CARE LIKE GERIATRIC CARE MANAGEMENTiStock_000063346301_Medium-1.jpg

Four types of aging families can afford geriatric care management, home care, and long term care, not covered by Medicare, because they have financial resources, usually over a million dollars in assets.

Two groups of these four do not have severe entitlement issues. One group is professionals, including physicians. attorneys, dentists. They are now retired but went to college when it was affordable and in some case free( in California in the ’50s). They came from  working-class families and climbed up through the American dream that once was available to all, joining professions that gave them the wealth to be in the top 10% of retirees today

Professionals- Physician, Attorneys, CPAs

This group made a very healthy living during the late 20th Century, probably had a

defined pension and have very lucrative investments that allow them to afford home care and care management. They usually come from nearly normal families and have been well parented although you will find a mixture of dysfunctional aging families. Their adult children tend to be supportive of their parents, although again you will find a mixture of dysfunctional families in this category. They are not among the two groups that are dysfunctional aging families who take extensive psychodynamic skills. One is the narcissistic entitled family.

THE ALCA TARGET MARKET THAT CAN AFFORD WHAT MEDICARE DOES NOT COVER- LONG TERM CARE

The target market for a private geriatric care management business is not the 65 million families who need care management services, but the much smaller subset of those families who can afford to hire a GCM or aging life care manager can pay the $4000-6000 a month for home care, uncovered by Medicare, and are willing to pay for the services that GCMs and can actually find their way to you. But they still demand gold standard service – not drivers chefs but expert professional assistance they gave to their own customers before they retired.

 

How Do you find these aging families to sign up new concierge clients?

Your marketing message must say your business:

  • offers seamless concierge solutions to the grueling aging care decisions families and clients must make.
  •  offers expert professional assistance, as they gave in their working life, with the tough choices aging family members must make about elder housing, medical care, personal care, finances, end of life and the myriad mind-boggling decisions they face.
  •  offers support to the aging client, as they did with their clients, and the whole aging family and can transform the family to get care for the client 
  • offers support and care  to the caregiver to keep them from burnout
  • offers the exact product they will need to solve their problem like dementia care, moving an elder, quality of life, VIP care, home from the hospital

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