This month, according to an article on the website of the Reuters news service, more than 2 million Americans are receiving letters promising to help reduce Medicare costs. Many will dismiss these letters as a suspicious-sounding fraud. But the program and the savings are real, and they’re good news for those low-income seniors who qualify.…
If you faced a sudden emergency and had to come up with $1,000 cash in a hurry, could you do it easily? Or would it be a struggle? If coming up with $1,000 in a pinch would be difficult for you, you’re not alone. A recent Associated Press poll of Americans from all walks of…
Whenever a celebrity dies, there’s always a ripple effect. The death of Casey Kasem prompted increased interest in issues of health care directives, guardianship and end of life planning. The death of Michael Jackson shed new light on the abuse of prescription drugs. Now, barely six weeks after the death of the rock star Prince,…
We recently read an article in the New York Times that seems to reflect the sentiment of more and more of our clients. The title is “Work a Little, Play a Little: a New Retirement Strategy.” Click on the title to read this recent piece, and see if you can relate. The article spotlights several…
In any presidential campaign – but especially this one – we seem to get more “heat” than “light” from the candidates. In the midst of a sea of rhetoric, some of it juvenile and much of it trivial, we sometimes long for substantive discussion of the problems we face as a society. That’s one reason…
A just-published investigation in the New York Times revealed a startling and disturbing fact. Of the estimated 1.4 million Americans living in nursing homes, many could thrive living elsewhere with some basic home help, but are unwillingly confined to the institutions where they live. In some cases this situation has persisted for decades. We encourage…
It seems that many people approaching retirement are in desperate of need good advice, but don’t like paying for it. So they turn to free tools and resources that promise to do the job of retirement planning. Unfortunately, those free retirement planning tools available online may not cost anything – but some of them just…
A recent report on the blog of the AARP reports on a problem that will sound familiar to a growing number of Americans. Nearly 24 million workers are holding down paying jobs while at the same serving as family caregivers – and that combination is a sure prescription for stress, fatigue and uncertainty. You can…
A few months ago the Alzheimer’s Association released a report that will probably come as no surprise to those caring for loved ones suffering with the disease – but it may be an eye-opener to the rest of us. We found this article describing the report on the website of National Public Radio. The first…
A few months ago we wrote about a worldwide scam involving a so-called French psychic named Maria Duval. This fraud has victimized millions of people, many of them elderly. We shared this story in this blog article from last February based on reporting done by CNN. Because many of our clients are caring for aging…
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