Remarriage after 50 changes your estate plan in ways that may surprise you. A practical guide to wills, QTIP trusts, beneficiary designations, asset titling, and the conversations that protect everyone you love.
For LGBTQ+ adults over 50 — who navigated love and partnership before marriage equality and legal protection — later-life relationships carry unique history, challenges, and strengths. A guide to dating, legal considerations, chosen family, and coming out late.
For older adults at every point on the spectrum of health, musical engagement offers documented benefits for brain function, emotional wellbeing, physical health, and social connection.
The most loving financial decision you can make for your children is also the most counterintuitive: funding your own retirement first.
A clear framework for one of the most emotionally loaded financial decisions adults over 50 face: whether, how much, and in what form to help your adult children.
Money is the topic most families avoid most stubbornly. Here is how to have the conversations that protect both your finances and your relationships.
For most Americans, Social Security is the largest single asset they will collect in retirement. The decisions you make about when and how to claim it can mean the difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For many adults over 50, their home is their largest asset. Here is how to think clearly about the housing decisions that can transform — or threaten — your financial security.
How to build a personal philosophy in midlife — the questions worth sitting with, the ancient traditions as resources, and why examined beliefs produce better decisions than inherited defaults.
How to set meaningful goals in your 50s and beyond — why SMART goals often fail in later life, the three types of goals worth setting, and how mortality clarifies what matters.
Art therapy is a clinical discipline that uses the creative process as a therapeutic tool. Understanding both formal art therapy and therapeutic art-making helps older adults find the right creative support for their needs.
How to deal with comparison and envy when others seem to have it together — what comparison is actually for, why social media distorts it, and how to use envy as a compass.