Insurance for Retirement
Four years to go. Perhaps five. Or three, if the budget is strictly adhered to and the market performs well. Ah, the heady dreams of retirement. Most of us look forward to our retirement years most of our working lives. And a lot of us will spend as many years in ‘retirement’ as we did working. The challenge, of course, is to ensure that we have properly prepared for our leisure years.
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Why are Canadians avoiding their long-term care planning?
A survey for Manulife Financial reveals that seven out of 10 Canadians said they would prefer to have an annual physical exam than spend an hour discussing their long-term care needs. This reluctance in discussing their future long-term care needs helps explain why only 21 per cent of Canadians have factored long-term care costs into their retirement planning.
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Nursing Home Evaluation Check List
This form may be printed out so that you can make photocopies and use them for each nursing home facility you check out.
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Hospice Care in Ontario
Palliative Care or Hospice Care provides services at home or in a home-like setting to persons with life-threatening and terminal illnesses and their families. The aim is to help people live as comfortably and as fully as possible. The focus is on caring, not curing and on life, not death.
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