Skin cancer is very common. In fact, one in every three cancers diagnosed are classified as skin cancer.

As aging seniors approach their final years of life, they are confronted with the task of choosing their final resting place.

If a senior or a senior couple is relying on investments and savings such as Social Security or pensions to augment income...

If you know or care for someone who suffers from Alzheimers disease, you may notice regular behavioral changes at certain times of the day.

There are a number of factors that affect the health and longevity of aging seniors.

14 million older adults living in the U.S have diabetes.

Heart disease is the most frequent condition found among the elderly. It also the number one cause of death for the elderly.

Right now, several states are encouraging, and even mandating, self-isolation and quarantine due to the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID 19.

Getting older is definitely not a cakewalk. If there is one thing that is true for every living person on this planet it is that everyone of us will get older and eventually die.

Insurance agents who sell long term care insurance and the people who buy this insurance are confident that this product will protect the purchasers from the financial ravages of needing long term care services in the future.

Every working day at the National Care Planning Council we receive numerous requests from the public for assistance for aging seniors.

By far, the greatest risk for retired seniors, especially those who are advanced in age, is the need for long-term care services.

Assume that you are age 62 this year and your full Social Security retirement age will be 67, five years from now.

Survivors Pension, also known as Death Pension, is a disability income program available to the single surviving spouse and/or dependent children of a deceased veteran who served during a period of war.

Sometimes it may be necessary to pursue a conservatorship or guardianship for a person who is not able to make or communicate decisions. Unlike a power of attorney, an individual appointed as a conservator or guardian can make decisions on behalf of the person being protected and those decisions cannot be overridden by the protected person.

A life settlement, or senior settlement, as they are sometimes called, involves selling an existing life insurance policy to a third party, a person or an entity other than the company that issued the policy, for more than the policy's cash surrender value, but less than the net death benefit.

Government programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Administration will cover the cost of long-term care under certain conditions.

No one in this country dies from old age.

Beneficiary designations at death take precedence over the provisions of a will or trust.

Probate avoidance is not as important as it used to be because of the many states that are bypassing the formal probate process with simplified options.