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Don't be a victim of financial abuse

 
A couple years ago, someone convinced an elderly friend of mine to sign over her financial power of attorney to them.  This individual also convinced my friend to change her will and to sign over title to her home and car.  There was a wild, crazy couple days as I desperately contacted Adult Protective Services and then called everyone I knew in Senior Services. 

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How will long term care affect you?

 
Has this ever happened to you?  Have you woken up one day and seen someone you loved as someone you would be caring for in the future?  I don’t mean the knowledge that some day it will happen like when you look at your toddling daughter and know that you’re going to need a shotgun when she hits puberty.  I mean the gut wrenching knowledge that someday is nearly here and you’re wondering what kind of changes you’ll need to make to either your parents’ home or your own and whether you have enough time to suddenly become organized or patient or whatever it is you’ll need to be when the need comes screaming down the pike. 

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Study finds that where you live determines your health treatment

 
Choose where you’ll age carefully.  New research indicates that where seniors live not only dictates how much health care they receive but also which medications doctors prescribe for them.  The research is new but the results are not.  Seniors often get prescribed medications deemed high risk (and listed on this Beers listing) but the study also showed that treatment options that are proven beneficial to seniors were often ignored for no apparent reason than from which part of the country they live in.  Researchers were unable to explain why there was such a variation in treatment options.

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In the future, growing old could take longer

 
How would you like to live to be 120 years old?  If you are like most Americans in a recent survey, you’re not all that interested in living past 100 much less 120 but scientists think that babies born this year are likely to do just that. 

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