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The Funeral Consumer Alliance doesn’t recommend prepaying for a funeral unless you need to spend down your financial resources so you can qualify for Medicaid.

By Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Can you give me some tips on picking a good nursing home for my father? Since his stroke, I’ve been taking care of him at home, but he’s gotten to the point where ...

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Estate planning is an important part of financial planning at any age. Without a plan, Montana law determines how a person’s property is distributed, which may not reflect their intentions.

The new year is an ideal time to reset, refresh and make sure your estate plan still matches your goals. You may think that ...

A year after a controversial assisted-dying device was used for the first time, its inventor says he is preparing a new ...

About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...

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A woman died and six other people were hospitalized in Tokyo after choking on mochi, a chewy rice cake that in recent years has killed and hospitalized hundreds of people in Japan, where it is often ...