News Roundup 1-3-2022

Estate Planning and Estate Tax News:

• The simple four step guide for estate planning
• How to get your affairs in order
• Making legal plans after dementia diagnosis
• Opinion: When faced with death, people often change their minds
• Trust or Will? How to navigate what’s best for your family
• Basics of Estate Planning and Your Digital Assets

Retirement and Financial Planning:

• How to select a financial advisor
• When it comes to your financial plan, you can’t trust a computer
• Social Security not enough to pay your retirement expenses? Here are 3 ways to lower them
• Guardrails and Vision: The Difference Between Budgeting and Financial Planning
• Proposed changes to the U.S. retirement system are still on the table in Congress. Here’s where things stand

Caregiving:

• How to be the caregiver from hell (when necessary)
• Should I move my loved one our of a memory care facility with a COVID outbreak
• Article by Barbara McGinnis, CELA (NAELA member), 5 tips for caring for someone you don’t like
• The empotional physical impact of elder caregiving
• Local child with special needs receives the package of a lifetime from a FedEx driver

General News:

• Update on the Fourth Stimulus: Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Receiving a $1,400 Stimulus Check
• IRS raises limit for ABLE accounts
• The top 5 cancer-related podcasr episodes of 2021
• Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm Faces Crucial Medicare Decision
• Bills Would Give Some Georgia Nurses Broader Authority, Support Family Caregivers
• Disability in the Workplace: Developing Accessibility in 10 Ways
• Feeling Powerless, Families Bring Elderly Home in Pandemic
• How Your Clients Can Pick the Right Long-Term Care Facility

Government Websites:

• Taxpayer Bill of Rights (IRS)
• Preliminary data from 2020 National Post-accute and Long-term Care Study (NPALS) are available as restricted use files with selected variables through the NCHS RDC. Additionally, data on COVID-19 are available to the public through a series of figures and tables. The 2020 survey provided an opportunity to collect nationally-representative COVID-19-related data for ADSCs and RCCs that is not available from other data systems. Findings represent data collected from January 2020 through March 2021, including the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among users and staff, practices taken to reduce COVID-19 exposure and transmission, and personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages. These figures and tables may be accessed through the NCHS COVID-19 data dashboards here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/npals.htm (CDC)
• Is It Flu, COVID-19, Allergies, or a Cold? (NIH)
• Bruising Questions: The What, Why and How of Bruises (NIH)
• Joint Meeting of the RAISE Family Caregiving and Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (SGRG) Advisory Councils (ACL)
• Who Are the Adults Not Vaccinated Against COVID? (Census)