The words “elder abuse” often suggest frightening scenarios of a relative stealing an incapacitated senior’s savings, or a caregiver being physically abusive. As troubling as theft and violence are for the elderly population, they are eclipsed by the effects of self-neglect, reported in a recent article in The New York Times. Self-neglect means someone’s behavior… Read More »
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Keep Clients from Becoming Squeezed As Part of the ‘Sandwich Generation’
Your clients have worked hard all their adult years, raising children and changing careers with the times, while aiming toward a great retirement. But perhaps a family elder is increasingly in need of assistance, financially and otherwise, because she’s nearly outlived her retirement nest egg. And so, your clients invited her to live with them…. Read More »