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Helping Aging Parents With Money: Charitable Giving

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On this Giving Tuesday, we’re focusing on our aging parents and their charitable giving. We’ve already written about senior citizens being serious targets for financial exploitation, sharing ways to help protect your parents from losing their hard-earned money. While we are passionate about helping our parents avoid becoming victims of scams, we also want to […]

Helping Aging Parents With Money: Avoiding Financial Scams

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It’s no surprise that there are plenty of scams trying to separate you from your money. But senior citizens are the group most often targets for serious financial exploitation. In 2018, the Senate Special Committee on Aging reported that older Americans lost almost $3 billion to scams.  Let that number sink in. At a time […]

Helping Aging Parents With Money: Online Banking

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My mom took me to our hometown bank to open a passbook savings account when I was 8 years old. I deposited my birthday money and proudly left the bank with the deposit details written into my little paper passbook.  When I started babysitting and delivering newspapers at 12, I went to the bank at […]

Helping Your Aging Parents With Money: Credit

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Helping Your Aging Parents With Money is a new series highlighting financial topics you may need to discuss with an aging parent or relative. It was inspired by recent events in our own lives and Cameron Huddleston’s new book, MOM and DAD, We Need to Talk. (We are big fans of Cameron’s book; you can […]