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The Dangers of Adding Others to Your Account
Although it can be useful to have another party available to keep track of bills when you’re sick or away, adding a child’s name to a bank account may be more of a hassle than it’s worth. Doing so may have unintended consequences for both you and the child. First of...
Home Health Care and Technology for Veterans
Recently, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has become a very unlikely and innovative pioneer in the quest to provide cost-effective, quality in-home care for veterans. Although the agency has long been mired in controversies surrounding its programs,...
Special Needs Planning
Estate planning requires extra specialized planning when you have a child with special needs. Looking to the future and figuring out how your child will be able to function in the world as they age is particularly tricky to assess. What is the child’s long term...
Implementing These Five Things Can Help you Live Longer
Living a healthy lifestyle has a significant impact on your well-being and the earlier you implement a healthy lifestyle strategy, the greater the potential benefit regarding your longevity. Your lifespan can be increased by as much as 14 years for a woman and 12.2...
How to Prepare for Your Aging Parent’s Care
No matter the situation, preparation is crucial to providing care for an aging parent. Whether you need basic information about eldercare resources and services, are looking for a local agency to provide those services or have worries about legal documents or how to finance your parents’ care needs now or in the future, the time to begin planning is today.
Finding a Continuing Care Retirement Community that Works for You
Recently, Continuing care retirement communities (CCRC) are gaining in popularity across the United States. Sometimes referred to as life plan communities, the goal is to provide a long-term care option for older residents. These residents prefer to live in the same...
Who Do you Want to Make Financial Decisions for You?
When you are no longer able to do so, who should you trust to manage your financial well being? A power of attorney (POA), otherwise known as an agent to your principal, has the legal authority to represent and make decisions on your behalf. What characteristics...
Important Information and Different Options for Life Insurance
Recently, the events around us have made many of us think about our mortality and how to make sure our loved ones are taken care of especially if we die unexpectedly. Life insurance can be an affordable way to provide for our children, a spouse, a sibling, aging...
When Both You and Your Loved One Need Caregiving
Naturally, family systems have a habit of stepping in to provide health care to their aging relatives. The love and care many adult children receive growing up become reciprocal, particularly in the case of their aging parents. But with the advent of longer lives, it...
Keep Care In The Family By Putting It In Writing
After her husband died, Dorothy lived alone. Soon her son Damien noticed that she didn’t have enough clean clothes, her fridge was empty, and she had fallen a few times. Clearly if Dorothy were going to stay at home – and who wouldn’t rather do that, if possible – she...
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