Monday, January 18, 2021
Too often, retirement plans fail due to a lack of coordination between financial and estate planning, as well as the failure to involve care managers. While we’re healthy and cognitively intact, we can continue to work, travel, care for grandchildren (if we’re so lucky), and go up and down stairs. Almost no financial and estate planning is necessary as long as we stay healthy. But the moment we or a spouse becomes disabled, most plans (or lack of plans) fall apart.
Age 75 is a good time to ask and answer the following questions:
- Where do you want to live when you need help from others? Being close to children (assuming you have a good relationship) will make life a lot easier for all concerned. Make sure you can live on one floor.
- Who will step in to take over your finances when you can no longer handle them yourself? A revocable trust is the ideal mechanism for managing financial matters.
- Who will make health care and life decisions for you when you can’t make them for yourself? You need a health care proxy, but you also need to talk with your agent about your wishes.
- Do you care if all your resources are spent down on your care? At age 75, it’s probably too late to buy long-term care insurance, but it can be a good time for Medicaid planning.
All the details of our upcoming call are below:
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 noon Eastern (9:00 AM Pacific, 10 AM Mountain, 11 AM Central, and 7 AM Hawaiian)
Topic: Disaster-Proof Your Retirement
Speaker: Harry Margolis, estate planning and elder law attorney and author who is a passionate advocate for seniors and for individuals with special needs and their families.
About Harry Margolis
Harry S. Margolis has been representing seniors, individuals with special needs, and their families since he started ElderLawServices, the predecessor of Margolis & Bloom, in June 1987. Since then, he and the firm as a whole have helped thousands of clients pay for long-term care, grapple with the incapacity of a family member, and plan for safe and productive futures for their children and grandchildren.
Harry served as editor of The ElderLaw Report, a monthly newsletter for attorneys for three decades. His leadership in the field has been recognized by his peers in his selection as a Fellow of both the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel. He has been named a “Super Lawyer” since 2005 and in different years recognized as one of the top 100 attorneys in New England. In 2015, Best Lawyers named him Best Lawyer in America in the practice of Elder Law and Trust and Estates., and he is the only elder law attorney to receive these honors.
He strongly believes that the best legal solutions are achieved through the partnership of well-informed clients and attorneys who combine great technical expertise, experience, and an ability to listen. Most recently he began answering consumer questions online at www.askharry.info. He is also the author of Get Your Ducks in a Row: The Baby Boomers Guide to Estate Planning.
When not working, Harry resides in Brookline with his wife, college-age twins (when they’re home), and a dog of uncertain breed. He loves biking and traveling, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Register for the program here.
Dorian Mintzer, M.S.W., Ph.D., BCC (Board Certified Coach) is a coach, therapist, teacher and writer with extensive clinical experience. She speaks to professional and community groups. As a coach, she helps women, men, and couples reinvent themselves in the second half of life. She is a co-founder of Certified Retirement Coaching 2.0., the founder of the Boomers and Beyond Special Interest Group for interdisciplinary professionals, and founder and host of a monthly webinar on the 4th Tuesday of each month: Revolutionize Your Retirement Interview with Experts Series for professionals and the public. She weaves adult development, holistic life planning, and positive psychology into programs that tap and shape clients’ energies into roadmaps for wiser, more enhanced living.
She has written about many topics pertaining to the second half of life and aging. She is co-author of The Couples Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must-Have Conversations for Creating An Amazing New Life Together and has also contributed to Out Of The Box Retirement: Creative Ideas, Role Models, New Possibilities; Rightsourcing Retirement: Best Practices for Employers and Employees; Not Your Mother's Retirement; 70 Things to Do When You Turn 70; 80 Things to do When you Turn 80; Six Secrets For a Happy Retirement; 65 Things to Do When You Retire: Travel; Live Smart After 50!; 65 Things To Do When You Retire; Remarkable and Real; and Making Marriage a Success. She is also co-producer of The Career Playbook: Second Half Plays.
She’s been featured in a variety of media such as the WSJ, NY Times, USA Today, Washington Post, NPR, ABC Evening News and the Today Show. She delivered a TEDx talk on “Embracing your Bonus Years: A Time to Grow, Learn and Evolve.”
For more information on Dorian Mintzer, visit her at https://www.revolutionizeretirement.com. Her book is available for purchase on Amazon.com.