As your retirement draws closer, you’re no doubt spending more and more time thinking about the best ways to prepare (at least, we hope you are). One of those preparatory steps usually involves taking a hard look at your debts, and strategizing about how to get those pesky encumbrances paid off so you can retire … Read more
Here at the AgingOptions Blog, it’s our goal to provide you with news and features that are relevant to your life as a retiree or as someone planning for retirement. As Rajiv Nagaich always reminds us, decisions we make about our medical coverage are often among the most important choices of all, since so much … Read more
For many Americans, the idea of retiring early continues to hold a special allure. Many of us heard tales of the “Microsoft millionaires” who joined that company early on, rode the wave of skyrocketing stock prices, and retired in their forties or early fifties with seven-figure nest eggs. There’s something enticing about the notion of … Read more
Here on the AgingOptions Blog, we’ve written many times about the importance of preparing proper estate planning documents well in advance, and the need to keep them up to date as your stage of life and your family circumstances change. Through our associates at Life Point Law, we’ve heard more horror stories than we can … Read more
The financial headlines these days can induce a kind of vertigo. “Stock market soars!” “Stock market plummets!” “Inflation tapering off!” “Inflation heading higher!” The roller coaster ride for those trying to plan for a financially healthy retirement is enough to give us all a bad case of whiplash. For that reason, we were drawn to this … Read more
Medicare open enrollment is in full swing – the one time each year when Medicare beneficiaries can switch plans with relative ease. Last week here on the AgingOptions Blog, we began our coverage for this year’s open enrollment period with a back-to-basics look at Medicare’s various parts: A, B, C and D. (You can check it … Read more
(Editor’s note: November is National Family Caregivers Month, set aside as a time to recognize and honor family caregivers across the country. This week on the AgingOptions Blog, we’re featuring two articles on the subject of caregiving, including one from US News that we first brought you a few months ago. With holiday season approaching, you may be visiting … Read more
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of articles come out every year talking about the topic of caregiving. Enter the word “caregiving” in your search engine, as we just did with Bing, and you’ll have more than 27 million hits. Few of these articles about caring for a loved one contain information that is truly new. Yet today … Read more
Retirement is typically pictured as a sort of idyllic existence. After decades of the daily grind, you finally put down the briefcase or the tool belt and pick up the golf clubs, tennis racket, and sun screen for years of carefree bliss. Well…that might be the situation for some. But if you’re a regular reader … Read more
We love the traditions of October – fall colors, college football, and “pumpkin spice” everything. But there’s another event that returns regularly in this month, and that’s the ritual referred to as Medicare open enrollment, which began October 15 th and continues through December 7 th. This is an important period for Medicare enrollees, because it’s the one … Read more
Will your plan for retirement lead to disaster if your health fails? Will you end up forced into institutional care, go broke paying for care, or become a burden on your family?
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