A Connection Between Alzeimer's and Doing Estate Planning

In today's Wall Street Journal, one of the articles discusses the progress science is making towards detecting Alzeimer's disease earlier and earlier in patients, hence the likelihood of preventing the disease more and more often. In the same way it is wise to have medical checkups on a regular basis in order to detect early signs of Alzeimer's disease and thus take steps to prevent said disease, it is wise not to delay doing estate planning. The sooner you do your estate planning, maintain said plan, and review and update said plan on a regular basis, the more apt potential emergencies or problems with assets, estate taxes, incapacity, Medicaid, family conflicts, etc. will be eliminated or significantly reduced when life's inevitable moments arrive.

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