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Discussing your will and estate planning with your adult children should not be taboo territory. In fact, it’s kind of mandatory.

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Last week a childhood friend of my wife’s committed suicide, one month before his 60th birthday. A highly respected and greatly liked doctor, most of his friends did not know of his depression. He is the second friend of our age to take this drastic step in the past 12 months. Sadly they join the seven Australians who every day ‘successfully’ take the same decision. Suicide is the leading cause of death in this country for people aged 15 to 44.

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Anyone who was of a ‘drinking age’ (or not quite) in the late 1970s and the 1980s is prone to wince and groan at the mention of ‘riesling’ (the grape variety) or ‘Moselle’ (actually Mosel, an area in Germany that grows a lot of it). The very words instantly evoke memories of labels like Blue Nun, Black Tower, Liebfraumilch – labels we remember as being sweet, cheap and, well, unsophisticated.

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Recently, while following my nose across the internet, I stumbled across an interesting competition being run by an American grassroots anti-ageism organisation called Enrich Life Over 50 (ELO50). The competition, is calling for people to nominate the terms and phrases that best describe the segment of the population aged 50 and over. There’s even $1,000 in prize money for the judges’ choice!

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Some good news: The medical world has targeted 2025 as the year that a dementia cure will be achieved – just 10 years from now.

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