Month: March 2016

  • The Difficult, Delicate Untangling of Our Parents’ Financial Lives

    There is an excellent article in today’s Wall Street Journal, Monday, March 28, 2016 on the difficulties of sorting out your parents’ financial affairs after they become incapacitated.   It includes a number of recommendations on steps you should take with your family while your parents are still healthy to share financial information and avoid the difficulties…

  • Confessions of a Recent CCRC Mover

    The question I most encounter when speaking with friends, family members and acquaintances about seniors housing is: How do you get a reluctant family member of advanced age living alone to agree to move to seniors housing? It doesn’t seem to matter if the family member is 79 or 99, there is still a strong…