Caregiver Storm: How to Make Money While Building Customer Loyalty by Helping Clients in Crisis

We're all getting older. And that's the good news.

The bad news is that at some point most of us will need help. Help with living and help with dying. And the people most likely to provide that help are family members.

But these family members also have lives ? kids, jobs, bills. And all these things will take a serious hit without proper planning.

It's not the jaunty, happy subject matter of a motivational speaker. But it's a topic every individual, association and company needs to address.

As our population lives longer lives, chronic illness and managed care will increasingly become part of the daily conversation.

Ben Neiburger is an Illinois-based Elder Law attorney and Certified Public Accountant. He's also a speaker who travels the country showing organizations how to respond to the coming elder care crisis in America with humanity, while preserving productivity and profitability.

Ben speaks to legal, healthcare and financial planning professionals about managing this aging demographic's needs and the needs of their caregivers.

He also speaks to associations and corporate HR audiences about planning for caregivers in a way that allows them take care of their responsibilities at home while continuing to be productive, profitable and contributing members of the organization.

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After graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in Finance, Ben became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He then went on to receive his Juris Doctor degree from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. At that same institution he became an Adjunct Professor, where he taught Employee Benefits Law for four years while simultaneously becoming a top regional instructor for the Becker CPA Review course.
Previously a senior associate in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie, Ben left in 2003 to start his own legal practice. He quickly became a highly respected attorney in Illinois, being named "Super Lawyer" in the Elder Law category for 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Ben is an active member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and a member of the board of directors for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education. He has also been admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, membership in the DuPage County Estate Planning Council, Illinois State Bar Association, and Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce.

Ben is a frequent speaker and writer to audiences of professionals in the legal, financial and healthcare fields, as well as families seeking information about planning and longterm health care issues. Because he is one of the few Elder Law attorney's in Illinois that holds a CPA, he brings a unique perspective and skill set to his law practice.

When Ben isn't practicing law he is busy helping his wife Barbara's Roller Derby business along with trying to get his pre-teen boys to stop playing video games and texting their friends. Ben is also a couple of years into his late-in-life in-line speed skating career, where despite being on "speed" skates, he can only go as fast as the middle of the pack during his summer marathon race tours.