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Lear- third age monarch- fourth age fool?
That Debora Price talk really got to me. Gone my cosy vision of a comfy third age, supplanted by nightmare dotage and dementia. The last time I really confronted the issue of growing really old was...
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Do you have to be demented to buy an annuity?
This tweet is not the first time I’ve heard this argument Interesting question about pension freedoms and dementia at #micuk – do annuities offer better protection to sufferers? @rosaltmann — Nick...
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With dementia in mind.
Why don’t we design financial services for the elderly with dementia in mind? The needs and capabilities of those in their eighties and nineties can be quite different from those in their sixties and...
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“Look after yourselves”– tough plans for the ageing-affluent.
The nice bits Ditching Dilnot’s cap Ditching Andrew Dilnot’s proposed cap on the amount we pay for our long-term later life care is the biggest attack on wealth I can remember. Protecting personal...
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Mrs May – where’s your sense of humour?
The most telling criticism of the U-turn over the dementia tax is that the Prime Minister has been robotic. She was robotic in Wales squawking “nothing has changed” like a Dalek and she was robotic...
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“A dementia tax- by any other name”- guest blog from Alex Adamou
Thanks to Alexander for this excellent blog and for Con Keating for sending it to me. After watching an unusually shallow discussion of the so-called “dementia tax” on This Week last night, I want to...
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Planning for a noble and quick death?
The wealth management perspective The FT has been doing some research about what motivates people to swap a pension for drawdown. The sample may not have been big but they’re drawing a strange...
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“Time spent frail in old age doubles”
Our last years may not be easy A Newcastle University study, suggests that elderly people are getting frail for longer as they reach the final years of their life. According to the Seed project men...
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