What if you could redefine your journey into retirement and end-of-life planning?

Discover the crucial yet often overlooked aspects of retirement in this insightful episode of The Simply Retirement Podcast. Host Eric Blake, joined by Jeanne Brosseau, Community Liaison from Ardent Healthcare, tackles the sensitive subject of end-of-life care. This episode is specially crafted to guide you through the complexities of retirement planning, with a focus on hospice and palliative care. 

Key Highlights:

• Enhancing Quality of Life with Hospice Care: Understand how early hospice adoption can significantly improve life quality
  
• Initiating End-of-Life Conversations: Gain valuable strategies for approaching sensitive talks about end-of-life care
  
• Integrating Medical and Financial Planning: Eric Blake seamlessly connects hospice care with estate planning, emphasizing the need for a holistic estate plan that smartly incorporates medical directives alongside traditional wills and trusts
  
• Understanding Care Services: Unravel the differences between home health and hospice care, learning about their subtle nuances and the financial implications, including insurance details
  
• Proactive End-of-Life Planning: Discover the essential steps to seek information and arrange care for end-of-life planning
  
• And much more!
  

Resources:

• Get Your Own Simply Retirement Roadmap 
  
• Medicare
  
• NHPCO.com
  

Connect with Eric Blake: 

• Blake Wealth Management
  
• Eric Blake, CFP® Facebook
  
• Eric Blake, CFP® Instagram
  
• Eric Blake, CFP® LinkedIn
  
• Blake Wealth Management LinkedIn
  
• Blake Wealth Management Facebook
  
• YouTube 
  

Connect with Jeanne Brosseau: 

• LinkedIn: Jeanne Brosseau
  
• Ardent Healthcare
  

About Jeanne Brosseau: 

When you ask Jeanne Brosseau where she is from, she will answer, “which year?” Jeanne was born in Colorado Springs but had moved 19 times by the time she was 10 due to her father’s career in the construction industry. 

Jeanne married when she was 20 and soon after started a family. Her husband’s career had her packing again to move every year, sometimes twice a year, across the continental US, and out of it, until she settled in CT in 2000. 

She started a career as a Student Counselor with The Writers Institute, helping adult correspondence students learn how to write and publish their work. She also recruited published authors to teach the courses. She fell in love with education. 

In 2008, Jeanne moved her 2 teenagers to Houston, TX so that she could better provide for her children’s college education. She accepted a position as a Unit Secretary at a small Catholic hospital and shortly thereafter was a student in their first Patient Care Technician training program. Right after her 40th birthday, she was recruited by a hospice company to be a liaison assistant and promoted 2 months later to a full marketing position. 

Although Jeanne didn’t know anything about hospice, she researched, asked lots of questions and started to become educated on all areas of healthcare. She wanted to know the differences between the levels of care, when each was appropriate, and why. She loved the “educational” piece of it. Now, Jeanne brings that education to as many people as possible.

“End of life discussions should be as important as beginning of life discussions. Preparing for that journey takes much of the fear out of it.”