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It Is Time to Pay Attention!
Let's face it. We are getting old, faster than we ever expected and besides we never believed it could happen. Yet, it is happening and to a whole lot of us, all at once. According to the United States Census Bureau, baby boomers are those persons born between 1946 and 1964. Thus, the oldest of us are now 63 and the youngest are 45. Its a huge wave, the largest ever consisting of more than 75 million Americans, and it is going to impact us all in ways most didn't imagine 10 years ago.
The baby boomers are poignantly aware that the world of our childhood and of our ancestors is passing. We remember what the planet looked like to us so many years ago and perceive the differences in ways that only those older than us remain sensitive to. Its an accident of timing. We have the fortune of being the witnesses.
Today's changing circumstances have immediate and dramatic implications for life's decisions that we, and our parents, make or ignore today. We still live in a world that allows predetermination but we tend to ignore our responsibilities. While the political and environmental systems may be out of balance, the rights of the individual as the American experience uniquely allows continue to dominate. Our government supports self-determination in ways that are not enjoyed anywhere else on the planet. We Boomers are still writing legislation. That will change soon enough.
The problem is this: Just as we have ignored some of the consequences of consumption that are unsustainable so too we tend to ignore caring for our individual futures as we age.
Durable Powers of Attorney and Advanced Health Care Directives
We want to help make known to you the benefits of planning devices that are essential for dignified aging. If the bell rings and you are not prepared it will be too late. We know you have a vision of what your remaining years ought look like and that you do have the ability to actualize it. Respectfully, you just might want to "make it so" while you can.
Two useful tools for managing our fate, and the consequences to those around us, are the Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) and the Advanced Health Care Directive (AHCD). They are not expensive to arrange. The simplest forms can be downloaded for free from a number of locations which the Arnold Law Office links up for you on our
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page. If modest amounts money are nonetheless an issue for you, please avail yourself of these forms, many of which are supplied by governmental agencies. You can educate yourself at no cost how to set up minimum but significant and perhaps even life-saving protections, if you have the desire.
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