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When It’s Time to Talk to Your Aging Parents About Planning for Illness and Incapacity, Here Are Some Essentials to Include

Millions of older baby boomers – the “leading edge” of those born between 1945 and 1965 – are now well into their 70s. Moreover, if statistics are correct, most of them are not engaging in vital estate planning conversations with their adult kids. This reluctance to have “The Talk” about estate plans has been corroborated … Read more

Old Doc, Young Doc: Studies Link Effectiveness to Patient Load and Knowledge of Medical Research, Not Age

Which physician is more effective – the younger one with fewer years of experience or the grey-haired Marcus Welby type? For those who select doctors based on age and who assume experience always equals skill, this recent Wall Street Journal article might come as a bit of a surprise. The authors are two physicians who … Read more

Changing the Dementia Conversation: Respecting Loved Ones for Who They Were, Who They Are, Who They Still Can Be

What is “tragedy talk”? When it comes to dementia, it’s the kind of gloomy, hyper-pessimistic dialogue we all tend to use, treating those with cognitive decline, not as individuals, but as specimens. Once a person begins exhibiting signs of cognitive decline, everything becomes past tense, as though the person we know and love no longer … Read more

“In Sickness and in Health”: Being Both Spouse and Caregiver is Undoubtably the Biggest Challenge your Marriage will Ever Face

The picture is a familiar one: two young people standing in front of a minister, a priest, or a justice of the peace, repeating marriage vows. The exact words may differ, but one particular phrase common to most ceremonies consists of five little words: “in sickness or in health.” Decades later, that promise will take … Read more

One Family’s $1 Million Tale: Caregiving Costs are Rising as People Live Longer and Their Needs Increase

If you’re an adult approaching retirement – or already there – it seems you hear the warning bells everywhere you turn. Long-term care costs are rising, and seniors and their families need to do all they can to get their care plans in place. Whether you pay those costs through savings, insurance, the sale of … Read more

Breakthrough? FDA Grants Full Approval for a New Alzheimer’s Drug That Appears to Slow the Rate of Cognitive Decline

Not long after the controversial approval of Aduhelm, an expensive drug that claimed to provide some minimal relief for those with Alzheimer’s disease, another pharmaceutical combatant has entered the market. This drug claims better research results combined with an equally lofty price tag. But how well will the new drug, called Leqembi, actually work in … Read more

Aretha Franklin Died Without a Known Will in August 2018 – Now Her Sons Are Headed for a Court Battle

LATE-BREAKING NEWS BULLETIN: As we were preparing to publish the following story here on the Blog, a disputed will allegedly written by the late Aretha Franklin and found stuffed between couch cushions in her Michigan home has been found by a jury to be valid. This article published in the Hollywood Reporter was one of … Read more

Planning for Retirement Means More than Saving – It Also Means Preparing for the Next Phase of Your Life

For several generations, “retirement” was associated with little more than a well-earned rest after a lifetime of labor. In former years, a person worked until age 65, enjoyed a few years of peaceful relaxation, then passed away a short time thereafter – and that was that. It wasn’t until 1935 that U.S. average life expectancy … Read more

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