More Frequently Asked Questions About Elder Care Mediation
Families navigating elder care and planning often face challenging and emotional decisions. Mediation can provide a supportive and neutral space to address these conflicts and find solutions. Here are more frequently asked questions about the mediation process:
Frequently Asked Questions About Mediation for Elder Care and Planning Disputes
When families face disputes related to elder care and planning, professional mediation can be a valuable tool for resolution. Below are some common questions family members have when considering mediation for these sensitive matters.
Funerals
Families can experience a variety of conflicts when planning a funeral due to the emotional intensity and the many decisions involved. Common sources of disagreements include:[1]
1. Type of Funeral Service
Traditional vs. modern: Disagreements about whether to have a traditional religious service or a more modern, non-religious ceremony.
Cremation vs. burial: Some family members may prefer cremation, while others insist on burial, often due to religious or cultural beliefs.
The Tricky Business of Aging in New York
As summer began to fade into fall, the NYWBA Elder Law and Disabilities Committee presented an informative program on “Tricky Issues in Elder Law and Best Practices For Resolving Them Outside of Court” at the elegant Apsley by Sunrise assisted living facility located on Broadway and West 84th Street in Manhattan
Mediators Have Tools
Mediators have tools. And like a carpenter’s toolbox, mediators try to be sure to use the right tool at the right time and under the right circumstances. When a family is just starting to mediate a complicated family issue for the first time, a mediator tries to build trust and a sense of safety for everyone regardless of how far apart family members may be on everything from describing the problem to agreeing on who has the right to speak and when...
Inter-generational Solutions
Often the types of family conflicts that arise in care and planning for an elder loved one involve the same sources of friction that you might see in a workplace conflict between members of different generations.
What is intergenerational mediation?
When it comes to life and death decisions lots of conflicts can arise.
In mediation, patience and persistence pay off
In a recent mediation between a citizen and an NYPD officer, the complaint centered around the officer telling the citizen first to sit down and then ordering him out of the precinct house, at the same time putting his hand to the citizen’s back and pushing him towards the exit. The citizen complained that the officer and the other members of the force on duty at the time showed him no respect and were physically menacing considering his own slim build and their armed presence, with guns and tasers.
Is it nature or nurture that’s causing these conflicts?
Parents in the U.S. have almost twice as many conflicts with adult children as families in other Western countries!
Risk Analysis in Personal Injury Mediations
It’s well known that people do a poor job of anticipating their likelihood of success at a trial.
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