Much of the focus of our giving has been on charities feeding the hungry. With so much wealth in this country there are so many going hungry. We support local, regional (Philabundance in our area) and national (i.e. Feeding America) organizations. We also support Chef Andres and his World Central Kitchen, feeding people in distress around the world.
Certainly a timely topic. I receive all the time texts and other messages apparently from companies I have accounts with, such as Amazon, Netflix, and credit card companies. All with urgent messages and suspect links. Our generation (I’m now 65) is so much more active online and with streaming services than we’re our parents so we will be so much more vulnerable as we inevitably age and decline. With my mom who recently passed at 97, this was relatively easy but still a concern. She recognized her increasing limitations and involved her sons more and more. In addition, she executed POAs to allow us access to her accounts. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, she was a careful, frugal and educated consumer who even in decline innately knew how to protect herself. Nonetheless there was quite a bit of effort on our part to monitor her activities and accounts. I feel for those without family. I also feel for those families without the open communication about money and aging. It is not easy to talk about but absolutely necessary. I only hope that my wife and I do it as well as my mother.
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Much of the focus of our giving has been on charities feeding the hungry. With so much wealth in this country there are so many going hungry. We support local, regional (Philabundance in our area) and national (i.e. Feeding America) organizations. We also support Chef Andres and his World Central Kitchen, feeding people in distress around the world.
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Certainly a timely topic. I receive all the time texts and other messages apparently from companies I have accounts with, such as Amazon, Netflix, and credit card companies. All with urgent messages and suspect links. Our generation (I’m now 65) is so much more active online and with streaming services than we’re our parents so we will be so much more vulnerable as we inevitably age and decline. With my mom who recently passed at 97, this was relatively easy but still a concern. She recognized her increasing limitations and involved her sons more and more. In addition, she executed POAs to allow us access to her accounts. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, she was a careful, frugal and educated consumer who even in decline innately knew how to protect herself. Nonetheless there was quite a bit of effort on our part to monitor her activities and accounts. I feel for those without family. I also feel for those families without the open communication about money and aging. It is not easy to talk about but absolutely necessary. I only hope that my wife and I do it as well as my mother.
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