Two Sons - Two Brothers...

If you or your parents have to change life style very quickly, then you need access to data very quickly. You need the data in one place. Keep this data list in a very secure location. Carry it with you if you can.

At any time, you'll need to talk to doctors, receptionists, caregivers, relatives, insurance companies, HMOs. They are going to ask you questions about SSNs, medical history, and on and on. You will need access to information fast. Put it down in one place that's easy to print out, send to people, update, and store.

Of course you can't keep track of everything but you need to keep a record of information related to medical operations, medications, doctors, telephone numbers, account numbers, dates, savings and checking balances. Things happen so fast and there's so much information that you will need access to very quickly.

Here's what we did. We created a single 'word' document. Here are the major categories:

Primary Residence	Medical History	General Health Care Information
Secondary Residence	Miscellaneous Health Care	Pension - Account Information
Medications	Pharmacies	Income - Sources
Real Estate	Financial - General	Income and Expenses
Physicians	Financial - Bank Accounts