Demand Is High, But Financial Support For Oklahoma’s Unpaid Caregivers Is Scarce
Oklahoma City resident Francis Johnson, 64, left, retired early to for her 89-year-old mother full time after three strokes left Maybelle Thomas Fisher bedridden and unable to speak. (Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch)
Francis Johnson spent 25 years in estate planning, helping clients prepare for an uncertain future while doing the same for herself.
Johnson thought she had built sufficient retirement savings by 2010 when she moved home from Atlanta to help care for her aging mother.
That uncertain future arrived two years later while celebrating her mother Maybelle’s 80th birthday in Las Vegas.
