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Increased dependency due to illness, disability or cognitive impairments can make seniors susceptible to financial abuse.

Time is running out to use a potentially very lucrative Social Security benefits-claiming strategy.

Planning for retirement and deciding whether to buy long-term care insurance would be a lot easier if you knew your odds of needing long-term care, as well as at what age and for how long. Unfortunately, there’s no definite answer.

Medicare prescription drug plans can change which drugs they cover, leaving you without coverage for a drug you need.

A healthy 55-year-old man can expect to pay $1,015 annually for a new policy offering $164,000 in current long-term care insurance benefits, according to the 2016 Long Term Care Insurance Price Index, an annual report from the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, an industry group. This amount is 4.2 percent lower than the 2015 figure of $1,060.

As long-term care insurance premiums keep rising and fewer companies are offering policies, seniors are looking for other ways to help pay for long-term care.

Millions of Americans rely on Social Security for some or all of their retirement income, and millions more are paying into the system in the expectation that it will be there for them when they retire.

If you don’t pay your debts, creditors can get a court order to garnish your wages, but what if your income comes from Social Security? The answer is that it depends on the kind of debt.

Medicare beneficiaries may now discuss options for care at the end of life with their health care providers.

If you transfer assets within five years of applying for Medicaid, you will likely be subject to a period of ineligibility.