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How unexpected health costs destroy retirement plans

We planned for everything except my husband getting dementia at seventy-two and now the care costs are eating through our savings faster than we can calculate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The collision between abstract financial projections and the brutal reality of human frailty exposes the limits of all planning.

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