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Managing Your Elderly Parents’ Finances

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“Managing Your Elderly Parents’ Finances”

In keeping with yesterday’s post about elder law and advanced directives, here is another link to a podcast about these topics.  Last Thursday, The Diane Rehm Show, sans Diane Rehm, discussed managing an elderly parents finances.

Here is a description of the podcast:

Millions of elderly Americans suffer from dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other disabilities that make them unable to make decisions about their finances. About a quarter of all people over the age of 65 rely on relatives, often their children, for help managing their money and assets. But the task of caring for elderly parents and managing their bills and property can be overwhelming and time consuming. It can also be filled with ethical and legal pitfalls and a source of family conflict. Join us for a discussion about the best ways to manage an elderly relative’s money.

Guests

Sally Hurme,

project adviser, education and outreach at AARP.

Naomi Karp,

senior policy analyst, Office for Older Americans, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Elizabeth Loewy,

chief, Elder Abuse Unit, Special Victims/Special Prosecutions Bureau, New York County District Attorney’s Office.

Managing Your Elderly Parents’ Finances

/ Matthew Clemente / Leave a comment

“Managing Your Elderly Parents’ Finances”

In keeping with yesterday’s post about elder law and advanced directives, here is another link to a podcast about these topics.  Last Thursday, The Diane Rehm Show, sans Diane Rehm, discussed managing an elderly parents finances.

Here is a description of the podcast:

Millions of elderly Americans suffer from dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other disabilities that make them unable to make decisions about their finances. About a quarter of all people over the age of 65 rely on relatives, often their children, for help managing their money and assets. But the task of caring for elderly parents and managing their bills and property can be overwhelming and time consuming. It can also be filled with ethical and legal pitfalls and a source of family conflict. Join us for a discussion about the best ways to manage an elderly relative’s money.

Guests

Sally Hurme,

project adviser, education and outreach at AARP.

Naomi Karp,

senior policy analyst, Office for Older Americans, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Elizabeth Loewy,

chief, Elder Abuse Unit, Special Victims/Special Prosecutions Bureau, New York County District Attorney’s Office.

Why Elder Law Professors Love La Crosse, Wisconsin

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Why Elder Law Professors Love La Crosse, Wisconsin

The most recent episode of the Planet Money podcast was about La Crosse, Wisconsin, which it describes as “The Town That Loves Death.” Despite this ominous description, La Crosse, Wisconsin is not as sinister as it sounds.  Instead, it is a city that any elder law professor would be proud to live in as 96% of adult citizens of La Crosse, Wisconsin have express advance directives to prepare for their passing.  

Here is a description of the podcast from the Planet Money website: 

People in La Crosse, Wisconsin are used to talking about death. In fact, 96 percent of people who die in this small, Midwestern city have specific directions laid out for when they pass. That number is astounding. Nationwide, it’s more like 50 percent.

In today’s episode, we’ll take you to a place where dying has become acceptable dinner conversation for teenagers and senior citizens alike. A place that also happens to have the lowest healthcare spending of any region in the country.

Sunday Funday: The Daily Show on AZ’s Anti-Gay Bill

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Sunday Funday: The Daily Show on AZ’s Anti-Gay Bill

Earlier this week SLACE discussed a bill, SB 1062, passed by the Arizona Legislation that, by the end of the week, was widely viewed as being anti-gay.  As of last Monday, when the SLACE post was published, the bill was awaiting enactment through the signature of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.  In the interim, a strange turn of events came to fruition.  The bill was lambasted as being discriminatory, and even some of the legislatures who voted for it repudiated their votes and urged the governor to veto the bill. Gov. Brewer did eventually veto the bill.  However, before tearing the bill out of the legislative history and tossing it to the trash bin of bad ideas, here is a clip from The Daily Show lampooning the failed bill and pointing out the hypocrisy that sounded it.

 

This post was originally published on the SLACE Archive.  For more public policy related video/audio, be sure to check out the SLACE Archive for daily podcast recommendations.

Sunday Funday: The Daily Show on AZ’s Anti-Gay Bill

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Sunday Funday: The Daily Show on AZ’s Anti-Gay Bill

Earlier this week SLACE discussed a bill, SB 1062, passed by the Arizona Legislation that, by the end of the week, was widely viewed as being anti-gay.  As of last Monday, when the SLACE post was published, the bill was awaiting enactment through the signature of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.  In the interim, a strange turn of events came to fruition.  The bill was lambasted as being discriminatory, and even some of the legislatures who voted for it repudiated their votes and urged the governor to veto the bill. Gov. Brewer did eventually veto the bill.  However, before tearing the bill out of the legislative history and tossing it to the trash bin of bad ideas, here is a clip from The Daily Show lampooning the failed bill and pointing out the hypocrisy that sounded it.