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9:30 - 10:20 Monday BF61SFM
Health Insurance Made Simple
Leighton Schmitt
Location: Southfield Village
This course will teach everything you need to know about health insurance. We’ll cut through the options to help you determine what's the best fit. Along the way you’ll learn tips and secrets to avoid overpaying, save on prescriptions, and find extra benefits many people miss. We will start with Medicare and move on to other forms of insurance, like under 65 solutions, Medicaid, VA, etc. Bring your questions.
Max: 12 Min: 3 8 weeks
9:00 - 9:50 Wednesday BF21W
Investing in your Retirement Years
Steve Carlock
Location: FLI Rm 5
In this class you will learn how to use investments such as CD's, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and annuities to help you secure your retirement. This class explains each investment and how it fits into your overall retirement portfolio. We will discuss investing to control taxes, outpace inflation, and to protect your hard-earned assets for you and your heirs.
Max: 15 Min: 5 10 weeks
12:30 - 2:20 Wednesday BF11TW
Legal Opportunities and Issues for Those 60 and Better
Douglas Germann, Sr., JD
Location: Trine University
What are you facing these days? This is a course directed by you: Your questions become our course outline. For instance, you can learn about:
-The crisis of paying for long-term care and nursing homes
-Guardians and POAs
-Alzheimer's and dementia
-The long-term care labyrinth
-Medicaid
-Wills
-Trusts
-How to choose the right nursing home or assisted living
-End of Life conversations and choices
-What help is there in our community?
-Living Wills, DNR, POST, and other advance directives
-How to be an executor
-How to be a POA
Special note: For the first class, we will be showing an excerpt from a film called Consider the Conversation, about how we are treated by our medical system and our culture as we approach death, and what is the best way to get the amount and kind of care we want. No class on Oct. 16.
Max: 16 Min: 8 6 weeks