Category: Elder Years

Death and Dying, and Two Tears

Monday, January 30, 2017 at 1pm
By John Friedman

Maxine Friedman died at 10:59 a.m. Central Time on Wednesday, January 18, 2017. That was a little more than a month after she turned on her hospice care and about three hours after I dashed off a short piece about how, all of a sudden, she seemed determined to exit […]

Further Last Acts of Love

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 8am
By John Friedman

Four days before my father died I asked him, as I had each day during the past many weeks, whether he was happy to be waking up. He always indicated he was — he was not able to speak via words back then — until the Saturday before he died […]

Occupational and Physical Therapists: What Do they Do and Which is Which?

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 8am
By John Friedman

Baby boomers with elder parents rejoice! I am pulling elder parent duty this week, with lots of time on my hands (here and there anyway), and can answer some simple questions that will come up the first time you ever find yourself in a similar position. *  *  * After […]

Using the California Statutory Will

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 1pm
By John Friedman

No part of financial planning flummoxes and bedevils people as much as estate planning. It makes the powerful weak and the merely-average absolutely-incapable. It makes proactive folks sheepishly cower, waiting . . . waiting . . . . . . waiting. And it makes high-output folks stare vacantly into space […]

The Death Tax is Dead

Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 2pm
By John Friedman

Michael Kitces, presenting at the FPA of San Francisco this past week, unleashed a number that knocked my socks off. He said that the number of estates paying the estate tax in a typical year under our current estate tax regime is in the neighborhood of three to four thousand. […]

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