If you were to read the headlines in some of the articles about aging, you would probably conclude that everybody over the age of 65 is on an inevitable slide toward dementia. Alarming reports make it seem as if every retiree is doomed to a gloomy life with their basic mental faculties severely diminished. With…
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When it comes to getting good, unbiased financial advice, do you know where to turn? And are you confident that the fees you’re paying justify the service your financial planner is providing for you? It turns out, based on this recent column we read on MarketWatch, that even savvy investors can find themselves paying exorbitant…
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Here in America we like to think the smart men and women in their lab coats, working in their well-equipped research labs, can tackle pretty much everything when it comes to our medical problems. After all, it seems to work that way in the movies! But this is real life, and while we love to…
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We were reading financial columnist Michelle Singletary’s latest column in the Washington Post a few days ago when something in the article really grabbed our attention. It wasn’t the column itself, which was about “401(k) millionaires” – instead it was a reader comment buried far down in the Singletary column that set off warning bells.…
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These days it seems like Democrats and Republicans seldom agree on anything. So it makes the news when two prominent Senators, one a conservative from the GOP and the other a progressive Democrat, come together to advocate publicly for a top-level federal commission to address what they call a retirement crisis in America. We discovered…
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On Memorial Day, we honor service members who have given their lives for our nation. Social Security acknowledges the heroism and courage of our military service members, and we remember those who have given their lives to protect our country. Part of how we honor these heroes is the way we provide Social Security benefits.…
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Here at AgingOptions we’ve recognized for quite some time the fact that the home equity conversion mortgage – better known as an HECM or reverse mortgage – is a powerful financial tool which can be of great benefit to many qualifying senior homeowners. So we were intrigued when a column that appeared in late March…
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A pair of articles we recently discovered on a website called “AZCentral” (part of the USAToday network of news outlets) seems to reinforce the idea that the financial outlook for many retirees can best be described as precarious. These articles, written by reporter Russ Wiles, suggest that too many pre-retirees are tapping their retirement savings…
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