Tag Archives: Dementia
Dying is an art that is really expensive
My blog is a nothing compared with the power of analysis you can get from the FT and other seriously good papers we produce in this country. Thanks to Alan Chaplin, Pension PlayPen and this blog have had some … Continue reading
“Time spent frail in old age doubles”
A Newcastle University study, suggests that elderly people are getting frail for longer as they reach the final years of their life. According to the Seed project men spent 2.4 years on average needing regular care and women three … Continue reading
Posted in doctors, pensions
Tagged Dementia, Newcstle Univeristy, Old age, Saga, the Seed Project
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Planning for a noble and quick death?
The FT has been doing some research about what motivates people to swap a pension for drawdown. The sample may not have been big but they’re drawing a strange conclusion. The superiority of the death benefits within drawdown are … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, First Actuarial, pensions, twitter
Tagged CARE, Debora Price, Dementia, Drawdown, jo cumbo, Old age, pension
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“A dementia tax- by any other name”- guest blog from Alex Adamou
Thanks to Alexander for this excellent blog and for Con Keating for sending it to me. After watching an unusually shallow discussion of the so-called “dementia tax” on This Week last night, I want to give my take on it. … Continue reading
Mrs May – where’s your sense of humour?
The most telling criticism of the U-turn over the dementia tax is that the Prime Minister has been robotic. She was robotic in Wales squawking “nothing has changed” like a Dalek and she was robotic with Andrew Neil. It is not … Continue reading
“Look after yourselves” – tough plans for the ageing-affluent.
Ditching Dilnot’s cap Ditching Andrew Dilnot’s proposed cap on the amount we pay for our long-term later life care is the biggest attack on wealth I can remember. Protecting personal assets at £100,000 is scant comfort when the … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew Dilnot, Conservative Manifeto, Dementia, inheritance, long term care, Prime Minister, Theresa May
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With dementia in mind.
Why don’t we design financial services for the elderly with dementia in mind? The needs and capabilities of those in their eighties and nineties can be quite different from those in their sixties and seventies. We would not treat a twenty … Continue reading
Do you have to be demented to buy an annuity?
This tweet is not the first time I’ve heard this argument Interesting question about pension freedoms and dementia at #micuk – do annuities offer better protection to sufferers? @rosaltmann — Nick Britton (@NickBritton_) May 13, 2015 I heard it several … Continue reading
Lear- third age monarch- fourth age fool?
That Debora Price talk really got to me. Gone my cosy vision of a comfy third age, supplanted by nightmare dotage and dementia. The last time I really confronted the issue of growing really old was when I was involved in … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Retirement
Tagged Cordelia, Cordelia Chase, Dementia, Fool, King Lear, Lear, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
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