Episode 8: After Us
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Most parents of children with additional needs have not made a formal plan for what happens after they’re gone. Not because they don’t love their child. Because sitting down and doing it is one of the hardest things you’ll ever have to face.
This week Erin and Terry face it properly. What the conversation actually involves. The cliff edge that comes at 18 when school ends and the adult disability services system, already stretched to capacity, has to take over. The three things that need to be planned: who makes decisions for Harry under Ireland’s Assisted Decision-Making Act, who cares for him day to day, and how he’s funded in a way that protects rather than removes his entitlements. And what it does to a marriage when two people try to have this conversation together without falling apart.
It’s not a legal advice episode. It’s an honest one. The fear, the avoidance, the grief, and the small steps that make it possible to keep going.
Tell us in the comments: have you started this conversation in your family, and what finally made you face it?
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