The document most people think they have A lot of people believe that if they’ve signed a power of attorney, someone they trust can step in if they ever lose the ability to manage their own affairs. In B.C., that depends on which kind they signed. The B.C. government’s page on substitute decision-making says it…
The call The phone rings, and it’s your grandson. He sounds upset, maybe like he has a cold. He’s been in a car accident, or he’s been arrested, and he needs money for bail or a lawyer right now. And please don’t tell Mom and Dad. Then someone else comes on the line, a police…
The worry nobody says out loud There’s an element of fear a lot of us carry into retirement, but we don’t like to talk about it. Work gave us an identity and a reason to get up in the morning. It gave us interaction with other people every day, and those interactions had purpose and…
The picture most of us carry Most of us picture retirement as a cliff. You work full time on Friday, there’s cake in the lunchroom, and on Monday you’re retired. Done. Over the edge. Not that we’re expecting something traumatic. It’s just an abrupt change: a hard stop on your working life, and a new…
A personal story by Robert Jensen, founder of SIDETRAKKED When a few blocks became too much I’ve had back problems for years. By the summer of 2023, I could barely walk one to four blocks without considerable pain. Sometimes I’d reach the point where I could hardly move. I wanted to get some quality of…
Ask someone what they want in retirement and you get big answers.
