Patti Black

Session: I’ll Be There for You: Steps to Reduce the Stress of Caring for Your Aging Parents

Are you an adult child who worries about your aging parents? Are you concerned about whether your parents can continue living independently? What happens if they cannot live as they do now?

Bridgeworth Partner Patti Black, CFP® guided us through these difficult conversations, pulling from her professional perspective as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and as a daughter who helped care for her parents.

During her presentation, Patti broke down actionable steps you can take to help reduce the stress of caring for your aging parents, so your family can grow older together without growing apart.

About Patti:

Bridgeworth Partner Patti Black, CFP® has been providing financial planning and investment advice for over two decades. She focuses on helping affluent individuals create a plan to be financially secure and live a purposeful life during retirement. Her planning also helps clients reduce the likelihood of becoming a financial or caregiving burden as they age. Because Patti has been a member of the “sandwich generation,” individuals who are caring for their aging parents and children simultaneously, she understands the financial and emotional challenges that her clients may be facing.

Patti is a thought leader in the firm and leads Bridgeworth University, an education and mentoring program for newer advisors. She is also a member of Birmingham Kiwanis, The Women’s Network, and is a past President of the Financial Planning Association of North Alabama.

In addition, Patti is a contributor to numerous national media outlets, including Forbes, Barron’s, Kiplinger’s, US News and World Reports, Financial Planning Magazine, InvestmentNews, Market Watch, and Real Simple. She has also been a guest on Talk of Alabama, Grow Your Business and Grow Your Wealth podcast, and the Breaking Money Silence podcast.