ProAging Podcast

As I understand it, Hollywood has discovered the beaut;y of silver/gray/white hair.  I'm jealous. I am over 80, it doesn't look like I will ever get it.

You've mentioned that we older adults tend to participate in "organ recitals".  Can you speak to the downside of such discussions and how to diffuse them?

This book is a great resource for talks with our adult kids.  Have the conversations with them now, so we can clearly articulate what we want.  Saying things out loud, or even write them down into a contract!

there is a publication called "five wishes" that helps tell those you love what you want done as you age and how you want people to remember you

How can I invite Steven to speak to a future Zoom meeting with the group I lead in Arlington, TX (Ambassadors For Aging Well). 500+ members...

"Does Steven know anything about use of video for end of life issue planning and decision making

bob Hoffman"

Steve, what is your next book? Research?  Joys of aging well?

Thank you, Steve for sharing that you are in the midst of writing a new book.  In the meantime, love your articles.

Body Composting, can you talk about the new funeral concept for composting the persons body and remains

Person dies outside a hospital.  Person is an organ donor (e.g., eyes, kidneys).  Can you discuss the normal process from death to cremation?

Donating our body to science after death?

Without use of Funeral Home, Family can take care of their own dead and care for the body and bury, the book is Caring for our own dead, home funerals, can you talk about this? Not against law in some states not to use a funeral home or even bury body in the back yard or on family land

book gives step by step guide how to get death certificate family can do this if they choose

If you decide to have a home funeral do you legally need a funeral hime for anything

Cremains frequently come from the funeral home in a plastic bag inside a black plastic box.  Do most families deposit the black plastic box in the ground (no vault), or do they remove the plastic bag from the black box, pierce the plastic, and cover the plastic bag with earth?

Will FEMA reimburse families who have already buried their loved ones who have died from covid?

up to total of three people three funeral costsmay be reembursed possible thirty thousand dollars possible or more

when phone lines opened first days of program more than one million people called and phone lines shut down FEMA call center hired many more people

An attorney read and looked at read specific details of the funeral reembursement program and attorney interpreted and  said the FEMA funeral program will reemburse for COVID related deaths even if the life insurance policy paid for the funeral. Can you comment on this are you familiar with this part of the reembursement program?

Could you explain that 1984 Funeral Law again, thank you so much

Not funeral prepaid for but paid for by the life insurance policy

Julia Andino

Kris Kington-Barker

Marady Duran

Valoria Walker

As a solo ager with no people to whom I want/need to leave money, but also no one to take care of me, the challenge is how to plan the spend down of my wealth.  Ideally I would spend the last penny as I jump in my grave.  Annuities have, in my view, lots of complications and restrictions and other problems.

Banks:  What if you have $1 million but it is in real estate?  Do banks require $1 million in liquid assets?

Steve, Please tell us the expeted duration of this Webinar.

If you have more than one back up successor, how do they make decisions if they disagree?

Please address options for those of us with no savings, assets (other than house with mortgage for 80% of house) or retirement beyond Social Security...

I have a health care agent plus a backup.  If I add more, with sequencing, do I have to redo the document and must it be notarized?

So on safe desposit box you can name someone who can have access only if you die or are declared incompetent?

I have been told most banks will not accept my general power of attorney, but require their own forms.  True?

Revocaable Trust, does a general statement that " I hereby put all of my property in my trust," does this title the property to the trust?Thank you so much

If you have already added your children to a bank account to handle things in an emergency situation should I try to undo that?

This is much more of a problem as we have shifted from defined benefit to defined cost pension plans.

Thank you!

What about a pour over willl to the trust?

What time is Medicaid Monday at Byrd and Byrd?