Keeping a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or another type of dementia engaged is vital in sustaining their physical and emotional wellbeing.
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Blind trusts can create a layer of separation between your employment and investment, helping you avoid conflict of interest between your assets and your professional or political activities.
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Whether you’ve an avid volunteer or someone who just likes to give back to their community, there are still plenty of ways to get involved, even in the midst of a pandemic. Here is a list of some great organizations that you can volunteer for virtually.
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Adopting a healthy diet can decelerate aging’s negative anatomical effects. This article reveals the best healthy diets that older adults and seniors can follow to cut down their number of health complications.
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No matter how much you exercise, the best way to make the most of your time is to target the four building blocks of fitness. Here are a few simple tips and tricks for older adults to get moving, as well as more specifics on how you can have the most effective workout.
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This article addresses what we know about the COVID-19 vaccine’s development, effects on older adults’ bodies, how to access the vaccine, and what to do after you’ve been vaccinated.
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This article lays out the standard criteria providers use to evaluate dementia, what some important co-morbidities are, what questions families should ask providers, and why getting hospice care early can be of benefit for both patient and family.
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Certain types of trusts called constructive trusts can be established against one’s will to remedy situations of "unjust enrichment." This occurs when someone possesses assets through breach of fiduciary duty or fraud.
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As we age, we become more and more vulnerable to having high blood pressure and its health threats. Here are a few simple yet powerful ways to help lower or prevent high blood pressure.
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For students of any age, the loss of a classmate can be a traumatic experience. The disconnect between death and young life is hard to sort out, while the death, in some cases, can be a student’s first exposure to grief.
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If you would like to free yourself and your children from high estate taxes, a Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT) can help. Once established, this trust will help you “freeze” the value of your residence and reduce the gift tax incurred when transferring your assets to your children.
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It can be difficult for older adults and seniors to keep up with the most popular tech—especially during Covid-19. Here are a few resources to help you become more technologically literate at some of the more common apps.
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For many people, losing a loved one is the most lonely and painful part of life. Grief coaches specialize in counteracting that loneliness and pain through goal-setting.
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As estate-protection tools, trusts have a reputation for being less flexible than simple bank accounts. While this is by and large true, Totten trusts are essentially bank accounts with a named beneficiary.
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A real-life example of an exercise we can use to process grief—writing that “letter you never sent,” and getting out all the things you neglected to say—in the hopes that if you are experiencing similar regrets, you might do the same.
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With at least a few more months of confinement to look forward to, compounded (for some) by the harshness of winter, perhaps this slate of video games is just what the CDC ordered.
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If you are looking for an effective way to reduce or eliminate estate taxes while keeping all the death benefits from your life insurance policies, this trust may be the right choice for you.
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As a devout Catholic and an old-school straight-shooter, a man of powerful feeling whose life has been marked by loss, Biden cuts an interesting profile.
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Coping with the traumatic death of a loved one - by murder, accident, or suicide - is one of the most severe challenges anyone can face. Here we offer advice gleaned from studies and health professionals on how to get through this profoundly difficult situation.
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If you are leaving money behind for heirs who are new to managing money or have a hard time controlling their spending, you should look into spendthrift trusts.
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