A good financial plan helps you consider what you want your future to look like, makes achieving your goals more possible and helps you live through unexpected changes with more confidence. Financial planning can also help answer a number of… (Read more)

The 50 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes…And How to Avoid Them
By Jean Blacklock and Sarah Kruger
Estate planning is extremely important, but it’s a task many people avoid. And even when you do get around to it, there… (Read more)

Cheap food?
Although healthful foods often cost more than high-calorie junk food, recent Consumer Reports unearthed some encouraging exceptions. Two rich sources of nutrients, black beans and eggs, cost mere pennies per serving less than plain noodles, which… (Read more)

Saving money for your future doesn’t stop when you retire. In fact, it becomes more important to budget and save after you retire. Unexpected medical expenses and assistive device purchases can eat away at what you think is a solid… (Read more)

Mrs. S’s “diaper rash” defied diagnosis, until she confessed to a church friend, “I daren’t use the retirement home call button because it costs money—and my daughter says I must save my pennies.”
Ms. B spent hours dodging her boss… (Read more)

For the record, an “assistive device” is a piece of equipment such as a cane, wheelchair, walker or transfer device designed to improve the independence or safety of yourself or your loved ones.
When planning for future costs of care,… (Read more)

Looking to save money in the new year? You might find ways to do this in the most unusual places. Don’t believe us? Read on!
 
Daunting double whammy
Obesity isn’t just bad for your health, it’s bad… (Read more)

55 to 60 per cent of all complaints made to their office come from those aged 60 or older, according to the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI). The most common topics of concern are:

• Lack of

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When Helena took her 81-year-old father, Walter, to the family’s lawyer recently so that he could have a will made, the lawyer, Ms. Rollins, asked her to leave the room while she talked privately with Walter. Helena was shocked and… (Read more)

For some seniors, living alone becomes more of burden than they can handle. But there is no one senior residence home that fits all. Different homes are best suited for different needs. Lets study one case to understand the factors… (Read more)