FINANCES & FRAUD:

• AARP (American Association of Retired Persons):

  • Estate Planning Guide -- Learn more about estate planning to help you make informed decisions.
  • Financial Powers of Attorney -- Explains how a power of attorney can be beneficial if you are not able to handle your affairs yourself.
  • Money and Work: Your Source For a Healthy Financial Life
    
  • What is a Will? -- This self-help guide provided by the AARP Legal Services Network discusses the basics of creating a will.

• American Medical Association:

  • Should cost be a consideration in palliative care? (09/2006).

• "Critical Conversations About Financing Long-Term Care":

• Source: University of Minnesota, College of Education & Human Development, Department of Family Social Science.
  
• Synopsis: A curriculum developed by Marlene Stum, PhD., regarding Financial Security in Later Life as a National Initiative Development Team Member in 2002.
• Some Resources:
• Educator Tools:
• Critical Conversations About Financing Long Term Care Facilitator's Guide (197kb)
• Critical Conversations About Financing Long Term Care PowerPoint Presentation (137kb)
  
• Participant Tools:
• Long Term Care: Do you know the facts? (quiz-100kb)
• Long term care and your financial security: Sorting out myths and facts (fact sheet-108kb)
• Financing long term care: Alternatives and considerations (fact sheet-145kb)
• (Worksheet for Parents-200kb)
• (Worksheet for Adult Children-123kb)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation:

  • "Fiscal Fitness for Older Americans: Stretching Your Savings and Shaping Up Your Financial Strategies" (Fall, 2005):
    
    • Synopsis: "[Seniors] need practical suggestions and reliable information about how to maintain financial stability and independence during the retirement years. We hope that elderly consumers — and the people who care for and about them — will find this special issue to be truly special and beneficial."
    • Topics:
      • Helping Your Money Last... After Your Last Paycheck
        
      • Annuities for Retirees: What to Consider Before You Invest
      • Retirement Strategies for All Ages: A "To-Do" List
      • Avoiding Frauds that Target the Elderly -- Related Articles:

• Fake Documents Used to "Steal" Homes; Inside Jobs: Elder Fraud by Relatives or Caregivers;How to Protect Against Financial Fraud; A Warning to Heirs: Identity Thieves Target the Deceased; & If a Crime Has Been Committed
• How to Simplify and Organize Your Finances -- Related Article: Professionals Can Help with Daily Money Management
• Giving Others Access to Bank Accounts, Safe Deposit Boxes

• Highmark Caring Foundation:

• Mission: "The Highmark Caring Foundation focuses on helping children get free and low-cost health care coverage, grief support and wellness information. The Foundation also helps adults in need of health care coverage."
• Services: Identifies available resources by counties in PA.

• Pennsylvania's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP):

• Mission: "Pennsylvania's program [provides] health insurance to uninsured kids. There are a lot of reasons kids might not have health insurance - maybe their parents lost a job, maybe their parents don't have health insurance at work or maybe it just costs too much. * * * CHIP works with private health insurance companies you know to make sure your children get their immunizations, doctor's visits, prescriptions, vision exams, check-ups at the dentist and more! For most families, all of this comes at no cost."

• Talking to elderly parents about finances can be harder than discussing sex

• by CBC News (Toronto, Canada, 01/11/2007).