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Editor’s Note: Parents aren’t the only ones that get hit up for money, grandparents do too and by both the adult child and the grand kids. As our friends at http://mom.me/ shared with us, there is a good way and a bad way to go about making this decision.
Lending money is never [...]
By Debra L. Karplus, MS, OTR/L
Girls just wanna to have fun, bellowed 1980s pop music icon Cyndi Lauper. Eternally young, this baby boomer was actually born in the early 1950s and is the same age as many of today’s grandparents. Lauper, probably no pauper, might have encouraged not [...]
By: Chelsea Sanders
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center last December, 3 in 10 parents of adult children (29 percent) report that the economy forced their grown child to move back in with them in the past few years. Many young adults are moving in with their grandparents.
Experts say that such [...]
By: AARP
More than one in four older women rely on Social Security for nearly all their family income. In 2010 alone, Social Security kept roughly 38 percent of women age 65 and older out of poverty.
Social Security is especially important to women today because:
Women typically earn less on average than men [...]
Dr. Eva Mor – Author of “Making the Golden Years Golden”
One of the biggest worries that grandparents over the age of 50 has is what to do with their money, where to invest. Very few of us have the luxury of retiring without any worries.
There are thousands of stocks and dozens of ways [...]
Invest in a GRANDchild’s Dream Sweepstakes
Enter the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) “Invest in a GRANDchild’s Dream Sweepstakes” for a chance to win a $1,500 savings bond.
As a grandparent, you recognize the importance of nurturing the dreams of your grandchildren, and NAIC would like to help you do [...]
“One of the most fascinating studies I’ve ever done,” says Peter Francese, founder of American Demographics Magazine and one of the nation’s leading demographics and consumer marketing experts, describing the report published last summer by MetLife Mature Market Institute titled “American Grandparents: New Insights for a New Generation of Grandparents.”
Distilled from an impressive compilation [...]
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