JoAnne Gaudioso Doing laundry may not always be the most exciting way to spend your time, but it is a task everyone has to face on a weekly or perhaps even daily basis. You can enhance your laundry routine with the cleansing power of essential oils. The most common benefit of using essential oils in…
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March 2024, Features
Dollars & Sense: Grandma vs. the Law—3 Legal Problems with Help for Aging Relatives
Taking care of an aging wife, husband, parent, or grandparent is an important and loving act of kindness. However, here are three common legal problems you may face when helping an aging loved one: Problem #1: They’ll Remember Me in the Will—Better to Be Sure You may give up a career, spend money from retirement savings,…
Features, March 2024
Compromised Credentials Are the Gateway to Fraud!
R.O.S.E., Resources/Outreach to Safeguard the Elderly Scammers are everywhere. They continue to attack unsuspecting individuals in new ways. In our increasingly digital world, scammers are constantly finding ways to exploit unsuspecting individuals. It starts with stolen, or compromised, credentials—your account IDs and passwords. Criminal rings harvest credentials by different forms of phishing. Whether through email…
Features, March 2024
Word of the Month: Apricity
David Zapatka Friend and fellow pickleball player, Natasha Thompson, writes, “‘Apricity’ means warmth of the sun in winter. Did I expand your vocabulary?” Yes, you have, Tash, and I expect you will be expanding our readers’ vocabulary with this word as well. Maybe you will even bring it back into use as it has fallen…
March 2024, Features
Dollars & Sense: Qualified Charitable Distributions in an Inherited IRA?
Chris Robinson, ChFC A Qualified Charitable Distribution, or QCD, can be taken from an IRA or an Inherited IRA as long as the current owner is at least age 70-1/2 or older, not just in the year they turn 70-1/2, but they actually have to be 70-1/2 or older. It does not matter how old…