8 Tips on How to Talk to Parents About Finances

Long term care and financial issues have many caregivers scrambling at the last minute to sort through documents and services. By having open discussions with aging parents now, you can help to improve their financial health, reduce potential problems and ease burdens in the future. The following tips from Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, […]

Facing up to the costs of long-term care

According to a recent article on CNN.com, “the average daily rate now for a stay in a nursing home is $183, or nearly $67,000 annually, an expense that after a few years would sink all but the very well-off. And prices will go up. If they rise a bit faster than inflation, by 2026 the […]

McCain and Huckabee address health care and financial issues

John McCain (l) and Mike Huckabee (r) take questions from Divided We Fail volunteers (image courtesy of DividedWeFail.com)
Issues of health care and lifetime financial security took center stage during the AARP-sponsored Republican Presidential Candidates Forum at the Orpheum Theater in Sioux City, Iowa on Oct 25th. Republican presidential candidates McCain and Huckabee. According to a […]