While traditional stand-alone long-term care insurance (LTC) products have seen a drop in popularity in the past several years as a result of companies leaving the marketplace and of spiraling policy premiums, life insurance-backed long-term care financing strategies have experienced tremendous growth.

In my book, “Rewirement: Rewiring the Way You Think About Retirement,” I lay out a detailed ten-step process that everyone can use while doing retirement income planning. This is also the same process that is taught to thousands of financial advisers in the Retirement Income Certified Professional education program.

One popular housing mantra that almost everyone is familiar with is “location, location, location.” This quote, often attributed to a British real estate tycoon named Lord Harold Samuel, has been used to express the notion that there is only one thing that is important when investing in real estate, and that is location.

Elder financial abuse impacts millions of Americans each year, to an estimated tune of $2.9 billion annually. The financial exploitation of senior Americans is only going to continue to grow as scams targeting that segment of the population become more sophisticated.