Archive for Family
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Moving – I Feel Your Pain
By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Your Advocacy Connection Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy Is it time to move? There are so many issues to weigh. For our office, our lease renewal was coming up and we needed more space to better serve our clients. Where would ...
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Avoiding Family Fights
By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford Nana loved celebrating family events and holidays with all her family. The multi-generational group gathered for birthdays, baptisms and Thanksgiving. They even had their own family event for New Year’s Day. No one could imagine not spending the holidays...
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Caregiving from Afar
By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford Overseeing the care of an aging relative is challenging enough, but throw in the extra complication of trying to provide for a senior relative long-distance and the challenges multiply. According to the National Alliance for Caregiving, approximately ...
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Your Advocacy Connection
By Julie Arndt GolderCare Solutions Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy Advocacy is an act or process supporting a cause or proposal, according to Webster’s Dictionary. Some people think of political advocates when they think of advocacy. Others think in terms of a patient a...
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Remembering Well
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home As a young teenager, I longed for the freedom to drive the car. Growing up in a small town, there wasn’t always a lot to do; by the time I turned 16 and had my driver’s license, I was certain that there was a whole new world to explore....
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – Lessons from Seussical
By Dan Adams Lessons from Seussical I have to admit, when I dropped my daughter off at the Center for Living Arts, I thought "what on earth can these 24 kids accomplish in only 10 days of the summer?" As I finished my short drive to our office, three blocks away in downtown Rock Island, I al...
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The Laughter of the Earth
By Mary Schricker Gemberling In the spring when gardening season arrives, I become all consumed with planning each outdoor space with careful attention to the color combinations and companion plants. I can wander for hours through landscape centers carefully plotting out in my head what I will p...
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Advance Care Directives
By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Folks. I can’t over emphasize the importance of long-term care planning. This planning must be a part your regular retirement planning, both prior to retirement and during retirement. Long-term care is an emo...
