So you think you know all there is to know about reverse mortgages? So did we, until we took this reverse mortgage quiz that we found in a just-published article from the highly respected financial website Kiplinger. This quiz was written by well-known retirement writer Jamie Hopkins, Professor of Retirement Income Planning at the American … Read more
Have you heard the term “the graying of America”? It’s a description of the fact that the median age in the U.S. is rising. As baby boomers – that huge group of babies born between the mid-1940’s and the early 1960’s – get older, so does the country. According to an article in the Fiscal … Read more
We’ve run quite a few articles on our AgingOptions Blog about the role of caregivers in today’s society. But this recent column from the Huffington Post really grabbed our attention, not so much because in contains new information, but because it’s written squarely at tomorrow’s generation of caregivers: the millennials, those born between the early … Read more
A small program that began in Little Rock, Arkansas, almost 20 years ago is now providing home-like care to about 1,000 veterans, at a fraction of the cost of nursing care. Besides saving the Department of Veterans Affairs millions in care costs annually, this initiative, called the Medical Foster Home program, provides loving care in … Read more
The ads on television, the slick brochures and the finely-targeted websites for today’s retirement homes typically portray the same type of image: groups of seniors happily doing things together. They take bike trips together, they do wine tasting together, they go antiquing together. If all that advertising were to be believed, retirement living today is … Read more
These days we often hear about adult children moving to another community – or another state – to be close to their aging parents. Traditionally, the image in our minds is that of a couple in their late 40s or early 50s moving to be near a Mom or Dad in their mid-70s. But based … Read more
It’s a decision a growing number of families will face, especially as the baby boomers get older. Your mom or dad is starting to show signs of physical or cognitive decline. They seem less happy and secure living on their own than they used to. Sooner or later for millions of families the question will … Read more
Have you heard the term “the graying of America”? It describes the fact that the median age in the U.S. is getting older. As baby boomers – that huge group of babies born between the mid-1940’s and the early 1960’s – get older, so does the country. One indicator of this trend: according to an … Read more
One of the most important retirement decisions – and sometimes one of the most overlooked – is the decision about where you’ll want to live as you age. Based on thousands of conversations with clients, radio listeners and seminar guests, we would observe that all too many seniors go into retirement assuming they’ll be able … Read more
When the Wall Street Journal talks, people tend to listen, and that certainly applies to a subject as frequently misunderstood as reverse mortgages. A year or so ago this article appeared in the pages of this authoritative financial paper, and we have to imagine that it caused a few skeptics to sit up and take … Read more
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