Often the best way to prepare for a journey – in this case, the journey of long-term care planning – is to talk with those who have been there. We know how long-term care planning is “supposed” to go when the process unfolds smoothly. But what if we haven’t planned,...
Sometimes here on the Blog, an article truly stops us in our tracks. That was our reaction this week when we read this extremely poignant column in the Wall Steet Journal. It tells the tale of a couple, Glenn and Karen Ruffenach, who had all their retirement plans in...
These days, people are getting all kinds of advice from so-called influencers on various social media platforms. Investment advice offered by self-styled “experts” is one common example. This week we read a Wall Street Journal column in which financial writer Jason...
Why are so many older workers staying on the job years longer than their forbears? The reasons are no doubt highly individual. Some are working longer because they have to, but many are doing so because they choose to: their jobs give them a paycheck plus the...
It’s no accident that, for many seniors, “retirement” and “relocation” often go hand in hand. As the old cliché has it, retirement is typically thought of as a time to be footloose and fancy free. In other words, it’s that time when you can finally live however and...
Thinking about the future of Social Security reminds us of watching a disaster movie in slow motion. We know the two trains are going to collide or the ship is going to hit the iceberg, yet the Big Event is years in the future, approaching inexorably but at a snail’s...
