Skip to content

Search

Reverse Mortgage Answers

Reverse Mortgage Answers

A Reverse Mortgage is a special type of loan that allows a senior homeowner to convert part of their home’s equity into cash or income,

Read More
Are You Ready to Take Your RMDs (Required Minimum Distributions)?

Are You Ready to Take Your RMDs (Required Minimum Distributions)?

Kiplinger’s recent article, “FAQs About Required Minimum Distributions for Retirement Accounts,” contains some practical advice to help you comply with IRS requirements. For example, if

Read More
Old Law Plays Role in Tennessee Will Contest

Old Law Plays Role in Tennessee Will Contest

“It's stopped the five adopted children of the late Astec Industries CEO J. Don Brock from contesting their father's estate twice now—a 110-year legal decision

Read More
Help to Help You Care for Your Loved Ones

Help to Help You Care for Your Loved Ones

Family caregivers can play many roles, like scheduler, financial manager, housecleaner, encourager, nurse, navigator, nurturer and more. But the most important role is advocate, ensuring

Read More
Report on Billionaires Shows Next Gen Have Different Plans for Inheritance

Report on Billionaires Shows Next Gen Have Different Plans for Inheritance

A recent Billionaires Report by UBS and PwC shows that the unprecedented wealth creation that has occurred in the past 20 years is going to

Read More
Florida Courts Continue to Improve Senior Guardianship System

Florida Courts Continue to Improve Senior Guardianship System

Florida Chief Justice Jorge Labarga announced the creation of a task force that will work on guardianship issues facing Florida’s courts. Labarga noted that few

Read More
The Gender Gap in Retirement Preparedness is Out There

The Gender Gap in Retirement Preparedness is Out There

Business Wire’s recent article, “Millennial Women Face Significant Gender Gap in Financial Wellness,” says that the 2016 Gender Gap in Financial Wellness Study quantified the

Read More
North Carolina’s Senior Tar Heel Legislature Sets Priorities for Seniors

North Carolina’s Senior Tar Heel Legislature Sets Priorities for Seniors

The North Carolina Senior Tar Heel legislature (NCSTHL) met recently in Chapel Hill for its final meeting of 2016. The committees discussed resolutions and established

Read More
Finally, New Rules for Nursing Homes

Finally, New Rules for Nursing Homes

As a recent Forbes article titled “The End of Secrecy in Nursing Home Wrongdoing” explains, until now consumers were required to sign arbitration agreements when

Read More
Medicare’s Observation Status Can Have You Seeing Extra Dollar Signs

Medicare’s Observation Status Can Have You Seeing Extra Dollar Signs

If you’re in the hospital under “observation status,” which is a Medicare designation applied to patients deemed insufficiently ill for formal admission, but still too

Read More
“SNF” Doesn’t Stand for “Sunday Night Football” When Talking About Medicaid and Medicare

“SNF” Doesn’t Stand for “Sunday Night Football” When Talking About Medicaid and Medicare

Can you believe the average cost for a one-bedroom unit in an assisted living facility is nearly $42,000 a year in our country? These long-term-care

Read More

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST