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Warning: Your Money Smarts May Be Fading

The bills, the Social Security payments, the checks that didn't get deposited, the meetings with your financial advisers, the insurance payments, your Medicare payments, the tracking of doctors' bills, the fight with the pharmacy when Medicare doesn't pay for your prescription? Sound familiar? The big question is: Are all these money problems becoming overwhelming? How can you cope?

According to the Financial Consumer Services Commission, "Confusion over money and a decline in the ability to perform regular financial tasks are the earliest warning signs of diminished capacity and the easiest to spot." I don't want to go down the dark road of possible early warnings of Alzheimer's, I just want to give you some tips to help to make it through this money maze, that frankly baffles and frustrates most of

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