Take the Free Caregiver Preparedness Assessment and see exactly where you’re strong — and where you need backup.
Keep Your Life™ Preparedness Assessment
Answer each question with Yes or No — your preparedness score appears at the end.
Question 1 of 140 answered
Section 1 — Your Caregiving Reality
Future Care Expectations
1. Might you be caring for one or both of your parents in the next 5-10 years?
Many women don’t realize caregiving is likely until it’s already here.
Caregiving doesn’t start with a crisis — it starts with assumptions. If you can see it coming, you can prepare before it reshapes your life.
Section 1 — Your Caregiving Reality
Role Assumptions
2. Has anyone in your family hinted or assumed you’ll be the one to “handle things” for your aging Loved Ones?
Families often assign caregiving roles without saying it directly.
Expectations today become obligations tomorrow. Naming them early helps you exercise your power while you still have options.
Section 1 — Your Caregiving Reality
Personal Impact Concerns
3. Do you currently worry about how caregiving might affect your health, time, or future?
Worry usually means something already feels stretched.
Worry is a signal, not a weakness. If you’re already anxious, you likely lack a plan strong enough to protect your life while caring for others.
Section 1 — Your Caregiving Reality
Care Preference Conversations
4. Has it been more than 12months since you discussed care preferences(housing, medical decisions, finances) with your parents?
Without conversations, families guess — often incorrectly.
Silence creates chaos. Families who don’t talk now often scramble later — usually in the middle of a hospital hallway.
Section 1 — Your Caregiving Reality
Decision-Making Clarity
5. Would you harbor any hesitation when confronted with the question of who will manage decision-making when your parents can't?
Clear authority prevents arguments and delays.
Clear authority prevents legal delays, sibling conflict, and emotional stress at the worst possible time.
Section 1 — Your Caregiving Reality
Legal Preparedness
6. Are you wondering where to find the documentation for your parents' legal and financial essentials(POA, will, medical directives) when the time comes to access it?
Documentation is the difference between order and overwhelm.
If it’s not written, it’s not real. Missing documents are one of the biggest reasons caregiving becomes overwhelming.
Section 2 — Financial Stability & Security
Longevity Concerns
7. Do you sometimes wonder whether your savings will last through a long retirement?
Many women underestimate how long retirement really lasts.
Outliving savings is the #1 fear — and usually the result of unclear assumptions and no personalized plan.
Section 2 — Financial Stability & Security
Career & Caregiving Trade-Offs
8. Would a 5–10 year break from work to care for a parent undermine your financial future?
Time away from work impacts income, benefits, and retirement.
Caregiving affects women’s finances more than men’s. Lost income, lost promotions, and lost compounding all add up.
Section 2 — Financial Stability & Security
Crisis Plan Readiness
9. If a crisis happened tomorrow, do you wonder how you’d pay for your parents’ care without sacrificing your own future?
Crisis planning needs to happen before the crisis.
Paying for care without a strategy is the fastest way women lose their life, not just their savings.
Section 2 — Financial Stability & Security
Guidance Source
10. Do you currently rely on coffee chats or financial “gurus” instead of a professional plan based on your unique life?
Generic advice ignores your caregiving reality.
Cookie-cutter advice works for nobody. Real planning requires assumptions about your life — not someone else’s rules.
Section 3 — Boundaries & Emotional Load
Life Balance Concerns
11. Do you ever feel that caregiving expectations could take over your personal goals or lifestyle?
Care often grows quietly until it consumes everything.
When care crowds out life, burnout follows. Spotting this early helps protect your identity, not just your calendar.
Section 3 — Boundaries & Emotional Load
Self-Sacrifice Tendencies
12. Do you sometimes feel responsible for protecting everyone else but not yourself?
Women absorb responsibilities long before they speak them.
Women often sacrifice themselves first. This question uncovers whether you’re at risk of losing your life while caring for others.
Section 3 — Boundaries & Emotional Load
Fear of Burdening Children
13. Do you worry that your children might one day have to care for you the way you care for your parents?
Most women want to break the caregiving cycle, not pass it down.
This reveals your deeper motivation — protecting your kids from inheriting the caregiving burden.
Section 4 — Preparedness & Planning Clarity
Next-Step Clarity
14. Do you currently lack a simple roadmap for what to do next in your planning?
Most women feel stuck not because of complexity, but because of uncertainty.
When you don’t know the next step, you take no steps — and tomorrow looks exactly like today.
Your Keep Your Life™ Preparedness Score
Based on your answers, here’s how prepared your life is for caregiving, aging, and long-term security.