joy loverde

Path Carver.
Keynote Speaker.
Best-selling Author.

Solo Aging ♦ Senior Living ♦ Aging Parents

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What is age for anyway?

I returned to my hotel room last night with a heavy heart after giving a presentation to people who attended my talk about planning for the future. Many attendees said they chose to retire and wished they had not done so. They said that they feel depressed, lonely, and lost most days. To retire or […]

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Why is No One in the Family Talking About Money?

Award-winning journalist and Reuters contributor, Chris Taylor wrote an insightful article titled, The Last Taboo: Why nobody talks about money.  Chris states that many Americans point to personal finances as the most challenging chat anyone can possibly have. So what’s going on here? Is it a family trait of silence? Is it fear of being

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Aging Alone? Here’s a simple plan.

Who will take care of me when I’m old? This unsettling question is on the minds of millions of people who have never married, are separated, divorced, or widowed. With people living longer than ever, if we live long enough, all of us can expect to age solo. In recent years, the definition of solo aging has

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Get Paid for Family Caregiving? Why not?

The notion that we should care for each other out of love and duty is deeply rooted in our moral code; but do we family caregivers have to go broke in the process? Plus, how will caregiving affect us emotionally being on call seven days a week, 24-hours a day? And what if we find

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Living Alone? Guess who’s coming to dinner?

If you are currently one of the millions of adults who are living alone, understandably you may be focused on the question, who will take care of me when I’m old? It is, after all, a real concern that solo agers contemplate every single day. At the same time, there’s another aspect of living alone

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Aging Parents: Are you at war with siblings? Read this.

Every week, it never fails that I get an email from an angry family member who complains about siblings who do not do their fair share of parent caregiving. They ask for help, yet brothers and sisters flat out refuse to be of assistance and/or ignore requests altogether. What’s going on? Truth is family caregiving

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Worried about your aging parents? Don’t say a word to them until you read this.

You have a feeling that it’s time to pay attention to your aging parents. They are healthy and active now, but you are well aware of what may happen down the road. They may be diagnosed with a chronic illness. Or worse yet, they may run out of money. And YOU don’t want to be

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Hiring In-Home Helpers for Your Aging Parent? Do These Four Things

Home care is now needed and you have decided to contact a local in-home agency rather than hire someone yourself. Grocery shopping, cooking, bathing, and laundry has become too much to handle. Hiring a professional caregiver to come into the home means that you are going to be dealing with many people coming and going

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Got Aging Parents? Helping Them May Include Selling Their House

Let’s say Mom and Dad have decided to move into a retirement community or move closer to you, and now they want you to handle the process of selling their home. Where do you start? Worse yet, what if you don’t live anywhere near your parents? How do you accomplish this important task from long

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Solo Ager? Let’s Eat Together

NOTHING binds us better than sharing a meal. Young and old. Rich and poor. Gay and straight. Everyone is welcome to the table. Isolation and loneliness is a modern-day reality. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Join the “Let’s Eat Together” movement and together we can change our lives, and those who are

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