A warm conversation about starting end-of-life care discussions before a crisis forces the family to guess. Morgan and Robin talk through an anonymized sandwich-generation story, a public r/AgingParents caregiver question about how to begin, and practical ways to move from values to an advance directive, a health care agent, and a conversation with the medical team.

The episode also explains why an advance directive is different from POLST or a DNR order, when to ask a clinician about palliative or hospice support, and how to pause when grief makes the conversation too heavy. It closes with local aging-service pathways and a reminder that you can call or text nine eight eight in the United States for free, confidential crisis support at any time.