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Say you’re in America during the roaring 1920s, a decade away from the Great Depression, and a man named Carlo offers you a deal of a lifetime. He says he’s found a loophole that will make you instantly rich (but pay no mind to the details, it has something to do with discounted postal coupons... Read more

What is elder abuse? An accepted academic definition of elder abuse is “any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person that causes harm or a serious risk of harm to a vulnerable adult.” This definition — from the Administration on Aging (AoA), a governmental agency — while a clear and... Read more

If you get the chance to speak to a quarterback while he is being smushed into the grass upside down in a pose more appropriate for a game of twister, ask him about the importance of the blindside and blind spots. But it is not just a quarterback issue. And unless you are an owl... Read more

“Do not hang up, this is an urgent call.” How many times have you have heard some version of this phone greeting in the last year alone? More importantly, how many of those came in a pre-recorded, robocall? In recent years, robocalls –those pre-recorded messages delivered by a computerized auto-dialer – have been front and... Read more

Queen sang about it. Your favorite windbreaker is named after it. It’s what every athlete and competitor strives to be — champion. But what is a champion? The way it’s used today, it typically means being the best in a sport or competition. And when we think of the word, we usually think of names... Read more

Sometimes the best approach to doing something difficult is to let someone else do it. This may sound like I’m encouraging the couch-potato philosophy of Homer (that’s Homer J. Simpson and not the blind poet from ancient Greece), but it is actually something straight out of the playbook of billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Often, as... Read more

Things go missing. It’s just what things do, especially your things. In fact, as you are reading this, you’re realizing you’ve definitely left something somewhere – you’re just not sure what thing or where just yet. Outside of breathing, eating, and sleeping, hunting for missing items is probably the most common pastime in the history... Read more

To fight financial abuse, you must first identify it — but as you’d imagine, identifying it is the hardest part. Read on to find out what to look... Read more

Discuss end-of-life care and advance directives today, as life is unpredictable. It’s what Paul Brophy taught... Read more

Time will take you through January, make sure your goals make it with... Read more