With Your Family in Mind

You know how to tell your doctor where it hurts. You can tell your dentist about your toothache. So why can it be so hard to talk finances with your financial professional? A meeting with financial professionals can admittedly be a source of stress for some. Managing money can seem...

 Several years ago, I sat down for dinner with my husband and two kids and leaned over to cut my older child’s meat. He was 10, and I’d been mindlessly doing it for, well, forever. But something stopped me in my tracks that night. I was a dean at Stanford University at the time, and the...

 Estate Planning isn’t a fun topic. No one wants to contemplate his own mortality. Nevertheless, most of us do care about what would happen to our loved ones if we were gone. Most of us have worked hard to acquire assets and build whatever estate we have. Most of us want to make sure that...

 Is your stylist actually a therapist who cuts hair? Could be! It seems they know a lot of the best qualities that are essential to relationship success. Here are a few. 1. She (or he) listens well. The first thing a hairdresser does when you come through the door is sit you down for a consult....

 Few people truly understand what could happen to their retirement plans after they pass away. In theory, leaving retirement plans to your heirs seems pretty simple. All you need is a beneficiary designation form where you designate who gets what. In real life though, what happens to retirement...

 After having attended the most beautiful wedding imaginable at Cipriani’s on 42nd street in Manhattan (Google it) with 350 people and three A list celebrities on the same night as the bombing in Chelsea (which with my luck happened to be right next to my hotel and garage) I became curious...

 Thank you Santa Clarita for voting Comfort Keepers In-Home Care best senior care for the 8th year in a row! Thank you for your trust! And mostly, thank you to our Caregivers! This honor belongs to them, as the heart, compassion and dedication of our amazing Comfort Keepers is second to none!...

Making difficult medical decisions can only be eased by preparation. Equipping yourself with the appropriate documents like an Advance Healthcare Directive and POLST will make the world of difference for your loved ones. An Advance Healthcare Directive is a legal document used to identify...

 This is the time for choosing your Medicare provider.  For many, this includes discovering what your provider covers for prescription drugs.  Medicare prescription drug plans can change which drugs they cover.  However, Medicare drug plans are required to offer you a 30-day transition supply...

 For most people, one of the things that is the most upsetting in life is arguing. It leaves us with feelings of hurt and regret. Of all the bad habits that arise when we disagree, the worst of these, are when we’re “Hitting Below The Belt.” That’s a term derived from boxing. A fighter who hits...

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 Looking for ways to save money and improve care, Medicare officials are returning to an old-fashioned idea: house calls. The experiment, called Independence at Home, is more than a nostalgic throwback to the way medicine was practiced decades ago when the doctor arrived at the patient’s door...

 It’s healthy to be skeptical in a world of uncertainties. Major news networks sometimes broadcast conflicting facts that require a bit of research to verify. There’s even a day in October dedicated to skeptics. So, this is the perfect time to tell all the skeptics that there’s no reason to...

 Grandpa committed an act of kindness: He executed a living trust. He knew    that this would insure that, after his death, his assets would be distributed in accordance with his wishes, without the expense and inconvenience of probate proceedings. He didn’t want to spend much money on estate...

 \Christopher Columbus might be one of the most famous explorers in America. He’s credited with discovering the New World, though Native Americans were here long before the Italian sailor. Centuries later, there are new horizons to explore and you can do it from the comfort of your home or...

 If you’re anything like our clients, the answer is an emphatic no. But actually, the cost of long term care is just one of the issues seniors are forced to confront as they age. Indeed, our clients constantly tell us that they want to gracefully age in place, not become a burden on their...

  [bsa_pro_ad_space id=3] ABOUT THE MAGAZINE The Magazine of Santa Clarita has set a high standard for excellence in advertising for over 25 years. A family owned and operated business, The Magazine of Santa Clarita has grown with the Santa Clarita Valley since 1989 and become the...