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...geriatric-care agency can place weekly or twice-weekly calls and visit you monthly if you have health concerns. These organizations can also help you find alternative housing, such as assisted living, should you need it. For Minneapolis, Minn., widow Rosalie Alden, 81, a retired physical therapist with no children, the solution is a support network right in her own backyard. Two sets of neighbors take Alden, who has survived cancer and a stroke, to see her doctor and run errands. They have keys to her home and see her almost daily, and one neighbor phones every evening to check...
Another critical ingredient in estate planning is granting a power of attorney, says David Tysk, senior financial adviser with American Express Financial Advisors in Bloomington, Minn. The person you designate--a relative, friend or neighbor--will be able to pay your bills and handle related matters if you become ill. In conjunction with a power of attorney, you should have a health-care proxy that states your medical wishes...
...tough loss for Brown, but the Bears had plenty to be proud of as they left Bright Saturday night. Brown was one of college hockey’s great success stories this year, winning 10 more games than it did last season, including victories over St. Cloud State (Minn.) and UMass-Lowell, both of whom were in the top ten nationally at the time...
...people have undergone "sex reassignment" surgery since it became widely available in the late 1970s. The law is trying to keep up. Most states now permit transgender persons to change their driver's license and birth certificate to conform to their new status. And 39 cities--beginning with Minneapolis, Minn., in 1975 and now including Denver; Atlanta; Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Rochester, N.Y.--have passed nondiscrimination ordinances protecting transsexuals in schools, jobs and housing...
...doesn't always work out that way. Janet Swanson, 55, a writer from Minneapolis, Minn., consecrated her divorce in her Congregational church with a minister and 10 of her closest friends--but not her husband of 21 years. She was "disappointed" that he wouldn't take part, but she says, "I saw a window of opportunity for healing, and I didn't want to rush through it in pain and all the stuff that happens in a divorce." At the ceremony, the minister spoke about why marriages end; friends expressed what they felt about the divorce; and guests read...