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What should we leave our heirs?

 

Robert Frank, in an interview reported in The Wealth Report section of The Wall Street Journal, recently spoke with Peter White, a counselor for wealthy parents and privileged children for over two decades. In his interview, entitled "What else to leave heirs, besides riches," Mr. White's premise is that it is not enough to leave our heirs wealth.

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An Ocean Apart

 by Kathleen Doherty, Co-Chair

There are some 75 million Baby Boomers and 10 million have become involved in the activities and responsibilities associated with caring for an older parent. Expatriate Americans now number around 4 million, and the number of us who are long distance caregivers is unknown. I meet people every week who have parents living in a different country,
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Thoughts On Growing Older

 

In order to embrace the midlife phase of our life, we must let go of old, limiting thoughts about age that have been impressed upon us from the time we were children, passed down through generations. As Marianne Williamson states in her book The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife, "...you're poised at last on the brink...

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Becoming "Long Term Care Aware"

By  Nancy Levin, CLTC (Certified in Long Term Care)

Many people don't understand what long term care is, don't understand the odds that they may need it some day, don't know how much it can cost, and don't know the options available to them. 

What is long term care?

Unlike medical care, long term care is not primarily intended to...

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Your Money or Your Wife

Wives May Suffer When Husbands Refuse to Buy Long Term Care Insurance

By Nancy Levin, CLTC

CA License #0d92415

It's a common scenario: a couple meets with their financial advisor, who recommends they consider the purchase of long term care insurance. Many times, the husband refuses to consider the purchase, saying that either family history indicates care won't be needed,

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Long Term Care Aware

Welcome to the Long Term Care Aware section of Global Aging.

Click here to access the first in a series of articles on this subject, as well as links to other related articles.

 

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Bone Tests for Men

New guidelines urging doctors to look for factors that put older men at risk for osteoporosis have just been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Once thought to be primarily a woman's issue, this bone-thinning disease is thought to strike about six out of 100 men by the age of 65. Screening for men that age and older is...

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