November 23, 2008Financial Affairs, Financial Management Take a Critical Look at Financial Instruments In the face of volatile investment markets, rising medical costs, increased taxes, and uncertain social security benefits, many retirees are...
August 13, 2008Elder Care Planning, Life Care Planning Generational Conversation: Create a Late-Life Plan How is it that Americans, who enjoy a relatively high standard of living, do not think about creating an equally...
July 17, 2008Caregiving Long Distance Caregiving is New Baby Boomer Challenge Long Distance Caregiving After my parents retired to Florida, we thought things would be fine; if something happened to them,...
May 29, 2008Depression Diagnosing and Managing Depression in the Elderly Managing depression is a serious life threatening illness, which without question increases the risk of mortality in elderly patients and...
April 18, 2008Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) What is a Continuing Care Retirement Community, or CCRC? CCRCs combine independent living with assisted living and nursing home care A "CCRC" is a Continuing Care Retirement Community, the...
April 18, 2008Dementia Alzheimer’s Disease: Significant Progress Toward Prevention Of all the issues of aging, none has been more emotionally or medically challenging than Alzheimer's disease. And because we...