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I thought it was interesting that according to Unum’s 4th Annual Landscape of Long Term Care, in 2008, 68 percent of its customers who used their long-term care (group) benefit received care in their own homes. This is a trend worth watching, as many people mistakenly believe that long-term care is for taking care of [...]
Do You Have a Yuckie or a Kipper?
I recently read an online article about the U.K.’s Baby Boomers and their children. It seems the U.K. has concocted several new categories of acronyms and neologisms (I had to look this up. It means a word that is in common use, but hasn’t been accepted into mainstream language yet). Yuckies are Young Unwittingly Costly [...]
Do you know that your life insurance agent gets paid when she helps you purchase a life insurance policy? And so does a financial planner, if you’ve chosen to go that route, instead. Sounds fair: professionals being paid for offering their expertise to help you shape a better future. It happens all the time across [...]
Older Americans Staying in the Workforce Longer
I published a blog the other day discussing the potential trillion-dollar shortfall in the funding of state-employee pension plans. Here we have another study showing people will need to work longer to fund their health and pension benefits.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute published a study recently showing that Americans age 55 and older are staying [...]
You work for your state or municipal government. Your pension is safe, secure and guaranteed. Think again!
Mark Scolforo of the Associated Press published the article “Study: States Must Fill $1 Trillion Pension Gap,” which indicates that states may be forced to reduce benefits, raise taxes or cut government services to deal with this staggering funding [...]
Nothing Odd About Choice and Control
It doesn’t surprise me that Ron Lieber of The New York Times used this headline recently for his article about disability: “The Odds of a Disability Are Themselves Odd.” He clearly shows the confusion that surrounds your chances of becoming disabled.
But is the issue really about your odds of becoming disabled? Or is it [...]
What’s Your Grand Gesture of Love Going to Be?
Not much I read in the newspaper shocks me these days. But I just about choked on my bagel as I read Jim Stingl’s column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the other morning. The headline was “Cost of love steady, but do we buy into it?” Now keep this number in your head: 103.
Stingl [...]
You’re Invited to Our Twitter Party!
In a few hours, the LIFE Foundation will host its first-ever Twitter Party. I know…you’ve heard of Twitter and you’ve been to lots of great parties over the years, but you’ve never been to a Twitter Party. So let me tell you how it works.
On Tuesday February 9 from 8-9pm Eastern, LIFE has arranged for [...]
Critical Illness—Your Risk May Be Greater Than You Think
Did you know that if you’re a 25-years-old male who doesn’t smoke that you have a one in four chance of having a critical illness (cancer, heart attack or stroke) before reaching 65? If you smoke, it becomes an almost 50% chance.
Jesse Slome, who’s the executive director of the American Association for Critical Illness [...]
Expressions of Love Often Bring Promises to Care and Protect
They dangle from our key chains, encircle our desks, hang on our walls and sit on our mantels. Through photographs, our loved ones are all around us, even when we are not physically with them. Their pictures serve as constant reminders of what matters most in our life.
To encourage people to share their greatest [...]