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For children, excursions with grandmother are an adventure. As time passes, however, the ride into the golden years can get bumpy; if you're financially unprepared, it can take a dramatic turn for the worse, and even drive you and your family into bankruptcy. Here are some steps you can take to prevent that.

If your medicine cabinet has a bottle or two of prescription drugs to treat high blood pressure, researchers say you just might be preserving your memories, too. It turns out popular high blood pressure drugs known as angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) significantly cut patients' chances of...

I wrote recently about findings that many patients in the early stages of dementia, including those who would progress to Alzheimer's Disease, already showed a diminished capacity to handle finances. Several readers asked for more information about how to recognize those who may be struggling with...

When Mom begins to mislay her car keys, or Dad misses bathing for a couple of days, many of us realize that it might be time to take at peek at their finances to make sure nothing has gone awry. However, this could be much too late. According to a couple of recent studies, patients with mild...

An unexpected outcome of computers and other technology is the loss of the "human moment." A term coined by Harvard lecturer, Edward M. Hallowell, it refers to the psychological encounter that can happen only when two people share the same physical space. The human moment is a quality of...

What fun is retiring well-off if you're not all there to enjoy the ride? Anyone unfortunate to have witnessed the ravages of Alzheimer's certainly understands. But almost all of us have experienced some kind of preview of diminished capacity to come -- glasses "lost" perched right atop our brows;...