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20 Aug Drug Prices: Finally. Something Everyone Agrees On

Posted at 11:54h in Blog, Health

Anyone who relies on prescription drugs or cares for someone who does knows that drug prices are soaring. The average annual cost of a brand-name drug has more than tripled in the past decade. Older adults take an average of 4.5 medications each month, which can add up to a...

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20 Aug An Aid in Dying Update: More Available, Yet Few Will Choose It

Posted at 11:41h in Advance Healthcare Directive, Blog

On August 1, New Jersey became the eighth state to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who want to end their lives. On Sept. 15, Maine will become the ninth. By October 2019, 22% of Americans will live in states where residents with six months or...

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20 Aug A Brain Scan May Predict Alzheimer’s. Should You Get One?

Posted at 10:55h in Blog, Senior Services and Hospice

Juli Engel was delighted when a neurologist recommended a PET scan to determine whether amyloid — the protein clumps associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease — was accumulating in her mother’s brain. Her mother, Sue Engel, is 83 and lives in a retirement community in Florida. She’s been...

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19 Aug You, Your Stress Level and Your Health

Posted at 20:40h in Blog, Health

I had a doctor who used to tell me that a certain amount of stress was good for me. And I have to agree. I like the adrenalin rush of working on a deadline, of juggling priorities to meet objectives and the exhilaration of making it all work. Stress keeps...

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23 Jul You’re Having a Stroke: Could You Identify the Symptoms?

Posted at 19:49h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Kara Swisher is a business technology journalist and contributor to The New York Times. In a recent article, she describes her own symptoms that led to her rush to the ER with a stroke. What saved her life? It well may have been a long-distance consult with her doctor brother...

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23 Jul When You Know It’s Time to Move to a Retirement Home

Posted at 19:37h in Blog, Senior Services and Hospice

A New York Times article regarding one couple’s discussions about moving to a retirement home brought back memories of my own parents’ ongoing dialog. My folks were in their mid-eighties, still healthy and active, but their three-bedroom home on a Florida lakeshore was becoming a burden. After a lifetime of shopping...

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23 Jul Seniors in the Workplace: Is 60 the New 40?

Posted at 17:39h in Blog, Senior Services and Hospice

The employment landscape for those 60 and older According to Inc. Magazine, there are now more than 76,000,000 Americans reaching the age of 60 and beyond, “and it seems they either can’t or don’t want to stop working.” An article in The Atlantic points out that employment in America of those aged...

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27 Jun Your Living Trust and the ER: When It May Not Be Enough

Posted at 12:15h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

You’ve created a Living Trust, an Advanced Healthcare Directive and signed a Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR). You’ve done everything right, but is this enough? In one alarming example, a nurse was under the misguided belief that Living Trusts automatically include DNRs. She instructed the doctor not to resuscitate the...

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20 May Blended Families: Estate Planning Gets a Lot More Complicated

Posted at 15:15h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who has divorced and remarried, you know that estate planning with your blended family gets a lot more complicated. Without a carefully crafted Will or Living Trust, your children could unintentionally be disinherited. The stakes are higher for those who’ve remarried There’s...

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20 May Facebook’s in the News Again: This Time for Age Discrimination

Posted at 15:06h in Blog, Business and Finance

Many employers have been happily leveraging Facebook’s detailed demographic data to target exclusively younger candidates in their job ads. The result? Once again, Facebook has found itself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. In this case, the company was the focus of an age discrimination lawsuit These detailed...

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20 May Drowning in Data, Yet We Can’t Get Our Own Medical Records

Posted at 14:56h in Advance Healthcare Directive, Blog

Oliver was visiting his son in San Francisco when he had a seizure. He was hospitalized at one of the area’s premier medical institutions where he underwent testing and treatment. Oliver had had a stroke several years before, so as a precaution, he always carried his medical records when he...

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24 Apr The Real ID: Are You Ready for the 10/20 Rollout?

Posted at 11:43h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, if you want to travel within the U.S. on a domestic–not international—flight, you will need the driver’s license/ID card known as a Real ID. Haven’t heard of the Real ID? Get in line. It’s part of enhanced efforts to improve national security. Each state is responsible...

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