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Secure Services for the Future: Bridging Planning and Daily Life

  As a fiduciary, you help clients plan for tomorrow. But what happens when the person managing the household finances can"'t anymore? In many homes, responsibilities are divided, and often, one person takes the lead on managing the family"'s financial life. If that person becomes incapacitated–or passes away first–everything can unravel quickly. Many older adults don't realize how much information lives "in their head" until someone else tries to step [...]

By |2025-10-17T22:38:06+00:00June 5th, 2025|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on Secure Services for the Future: Bridging Planning and Daily Life

Introducing Our Enhanced Team-Based Approach

For over 13 years, Life Managers & Associates has been committed to helping older adults live independently with confidence, clarity, and peace of mind. From managing bills to organizing important documents, we’ve been a trusted partner to seniors, their families, and the professionals who support them. Now, we’re excited to introduce the next evolution of that support: our Enhanced Team-Based Approach. What Is our Team Approach? Clients will continue to [...]

By |2025-07-30T19:00:59+00:00April 30th, 2025|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on Introducing Our Enhanced Team-Based Approach

Financial Professionals – Recognizing the Signs of Cognitive Decline in Your Senior Clients is Vital!

As a financial professional, you’re more than an investment manager/tax expert, you’re a trusted advisor with insight into your clients’ broader well-being. This role becomes especially vital when working with older adults, whose financial decisions may grow complex due to age-related challenges. Recognizing signs of cognitive decline in senior clients is a critical responsibility. Your vigilance can protect their financial health and enhance their quality of life. Signs of Cognitive [...]

By |2025-08-21T12:45:24+00:00April 4th, 2025|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on Financial Professionals – Recognizing the Signs of Cognitive Decline in Your Senior Clients is Vital!

The Struggles of Tax Preparation with Elderly Clients

Is this scenario familiar to you? Your aging client did not provide you with the documentation you needed to meet the April 15th deadline, so you filed an extension. Now, the October 15th deadline is approaching, and you still don’t have the information that you need. Filing taxes is a complex task for many, but for elderly clients, the process can be particularly daunting. Let’s look at some scenarios we’ve [...]

By |2025-07-30T19:03:36+00:00August 30th, 2024|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on The Struggles of Tax Preparation with Elderly Clients

Beyond Estate Planning Documents: The Importance of Conversations between Clients and their Agents

A standard practice when drafting estate documents is for an attorney to ask their client to name someone they can trust to make important decisions including those regarding financial, legal, and healthcare matters when they are unable to do so for themselves. Of course, choosing the appropriate person is critical. But what happens when the client has no immediate family members or close friends available or nearby? It gets complicated. [...]

By |2025-07-30T19:04:07+00:00May 3rd, 2024|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on Beyond Estate Planning Documents: The Importance of Conversations between Clients and their Agents

Embrace Independence: Introducing Our Aging in Place Consulting Service

Everything we do at Life Managers & Associates is dedicated to helping seniors maintain their independence. Advance planning is the key. Over the past twelve years of supporting older adults, we have experienced it all. We started in 2012 managing the administrative and organizational needs of our clients to make it easier for seniors to tackle day-to-day activities – enabling independence. During this time, we have seen families that have [...]

By |2025-07-30T19:05:56+00:00January 8th, 2024|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on Embrace Independence: Introducing Our Aging in Place Consulting Service

Collaborative Strategies to Help Professionals Complete Year-End Tasks with Elderly Clients

The end of the year is a frenzy of activity for financial and legal professionals as you rush to assist clients with maximizing retirement contributions, minimizing tax bites, facilitating donations, reviewing estate plans and so much more. Completion of these tasks can become more challenging as your clients age. As professionals who work with seniors, whether you are an attorney, financial advisor, or you provide support in the home as [...]

By |2025-07-30T19:06:07+00:00December 7th, 2023|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on Collaborative Strategies to Help Professionals Complete Year-End Tasks with Elderly Clients

Clients Who Want to Age in Place Need to Plan For It

Although the vast majority of Americans (about 90 percent over age 65) want tostayin their homes to live out their golden years, unfortunately, it's not always that simple. As time marches on and we age, homes that were perfectly functional to us can pose obstacles later on as our abilities decline. Think about when you were young and could bound up and down the stairs. As you age, those steps [...]

By |2025-10-14T18:15:55+00:00November 7th, 2022|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on Clients Who Want to Age in Place Need to Plan For It

Would You Know if an Elderly Client Is Being Exploited by a Caregiver?

Katherine was a recent widow. After her husband passed away, his private caregiver, Amanda, convinced Katherine that she could continue to help her with whatever she would need. Katherine could function independently and didn't really need assistance. But she wanted Amanda's companionship. So Katherine continued to employ Amanda and allow her access to her credit card – feeling she could trust her since she took such good care of her [...]

By |2025-10-14T18:23:00+00:00June 17th, 2022|Fraud, Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on Would You Know if an Elderly Client Is Being Exploited by a Caregiver?

What Daily Money Management Services Can Do

Barbara is 86 years old and recently widowed. Her husband of 65 years handled all of the mail, bill paying and filing. Now, she is saddled with a pile of paperwork and bills that need to be paid. She is overwhelmed and realizes she needs help. But Barbara doesn't have any nearby family who can assist her – her closest family member lives about three hours away. Barbara knows if [...]

By |2025-10-14T18:23:00+00:00February 25th, 2022|Resources for Professionals|Comments Off on What Daily Money Management Services Can Do
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