Summertime means road trips for many American families. With the Independence Day holiday just passed, the news has been filled with stories about more and more people taking to the highways, thanks in part to gas prices (adjusted for inflation) at near record lows. With that in mind, now that “driving season” is in full…
The headline on the recent CNBC story sounds optimistic: “Sibling money fights are rare,” it says. But then there’s this kicker: “but there’s a common cause: parents.” In other words, when siblings quarrel over finances, Mom and Dad are usually at the center of the battle. You’ll find the CNBC article by clicking on this…
With summertime in full swing, we’ll bet your college-bound children or grandchildren are starting to get really serious about how they plan to pay for the costs of their education. They may be thinking about turning to you for help. For that reason, and as a general rule of thumb, we wanted to update a…
Not that many decades ago – back in the early 1970’s, to be more precise – there was essentially no such thing as a time-share. In the 40 or so years since time-shares appeared on the scene, the time-share industry has grown dramatically, to the point where today there are more than 9 million time-share…
Maybe you’re in your 50s or 60s (or beyond) and you’ve decided it’s time to get serious about exercise. Or maybe you’ve always been active but now that you’re getting older you’re starting to wonder if it’s time to start doing your workouts differently. No matter where you are on the spectrum between “couch potato”…
By now just about everyone has heard at least some of the details of the Senate’s version of the American Health Care Act – the law that Republicans have been crafting in order to fulfill an eight-year-old promise to their voters to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. After the…
Here at AgingOptions we frequently get asked the question, “Who is the best financial advisor for me?” What people really seem to be asking is, “Where can I get advice I can trust, without falling prey to someone’s hidden agenda?” In these days of market turbulence and increasing fiscal confusion, people are desperate for good,…
We’ve all heard the expression “You’re as old as you feel.” We’ve also heard people say that “Age is just a number,” and “70 is the new 50” (something aging boomers tell themselves on a regular basis). But that does raise an interesting question: at what age are we officially “old”? We ran across this…
One would think that a vulnerable senior adult being discharged from the hospital to recover at home from illness or surgery would welcome the offer of in-home medical help. Many do – but a surprisingly high number refuse the help they need, putting themselves at far greater danger of ending up right back in the…
A few weeks ago we read this piece on the Huffington Post: a letter written to retirement expert Jim Miller by a man about to retire with a younger spouse. “When I retire in a few months at 65 and go on Medicare,” this man wrote, “what are my wife’s (insurance) options?” (His wife is…