Medicare and the Midterm Elections?

The Future of Medicare as We Know It Will Be Affected by This Election Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who...

Dreaming Into Retirement Planning

I recently ran across an article by financial “coach” Chris Hogan  about the importance of having a dream to inspire us to plan for...

When the Decedent Was a Hoarder

What is hoarding? I like this simple definition from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Hoarding is the persistent difficulty discarding or parting...

Dementia, Fear and Aid in Dying

  For this first post of June, I am revisiting a topic that has been discussed in previous posts: Alzheimer’s (or other forms of...

Planning for Aging

How does one assess the value of planning for one’s retirement, potential incapacity and/or eventual demise?  That is a very personal assessment, notwithstanding that...