Estate Planning and Elder Care: Getting the Conversation Started
It can be difficult to discuss wills, estates and end-of-life issues, and here are some thoughts …
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Elder Care/Family Decision Making
How To Balance Caring for Aging Parents While Looking After Kids - The Juggle
When my 69-year-old mother-in-law was diagnosed with a rare brain disease last spring, the solution seemed …
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Keeping Tabs on the elderly who live alone
Used to be, the phone or a good neighbor were the best bets for keeping tabs …
Who Inherits the 401k or IRA? The Answer May Surprise You.
Stock-market turmoil once again has Americans worrying about their 401ks and individual retirement accounts. But families …
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Financial Costs of Caring for Your Parents
Kudos to the millions of "sandwich-generation" Americans. These exhausted souls spend their time and money caring …
Elder care: Going it alone can be a recipe for burnout
For members of the so-called sandwich generation, fitting the needs of aging parents into an already …
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Growing Older in an Urban Village
Faced with the usual options for senior housing and elder care, some older adults are inventing …
How to choose the best elder care for your loved one
It’s an emotionally wrenching decision: having to put a parent, spouse or loved one in a …
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Some argue it's time to legally recognize the bond of friendship
IN THE AMERICAN hierarchy of relationships, friendship often seems distinctly second-class. We obsess about the "work-family …
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Aging Without Children
How childless adults should approach their later years is a question that surfaces with some frequency …