Preparing For Tomorrow podcast

Updated: 11 Sep 2025 • 234 episodes
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Diane Stoddart, Certified Long Term Care Consultant, will show you how to protect your family and loved ones from the financial, physical and emotional burdens and consequences when long term care is needed. In each episode, Diane will help you to navigate through long term care concepts, terms and options and to discuss what strategies are available that can best protect both your family and your nest egg. We will invite guests to sit with us and share ideas regarding various parts of our lives as they relate to long term care planning.

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This week, we're discussing worksite/group LTC plans, which have evolved a lot since group plans started being offered through employers. Jason Dutra with shares how they are committed to helping the 50+ million family caregivers in the U.S. today. He shares how today's worksite offerings differ from those offered in p

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So many people want a long term care plan with all the bells and whistles.  They want a plan that will pay for everything that could ever happen.  These plans are often priced higher than a budget allows. Why do people state that they want no coverage if they can't get the best plan out there? We don't do this anywhere

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28 Aug 2025 • EN

Just keep throwing seeds

This week, Diane uses the Parable of the Sower to share different reactions to LTC planning that occur in the United States.   Are you the hard soil?  The rocky soil? The thorny soil?  The fertile soil? After listening, you can schedule a phone or zoom meeting with me to start planning to prepare for your family's tomo

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Many have been advised by a financial planner, estate planning attorney or other professional that they have enough assets to "self-insure" future LTC needs. The question is not "can I afford it?" but "Is this the best use of assets to fund future care needs?" This episode is full of questions you should be asking your

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LTC in Europe

This week, I'm sharing what I learned about public LTC funding in Germany and how it's managed.  Their national/local public funding initiative is alreaday underfunded by taxes, and the aging population there is expected to increase by 37% over the next 30 years.   This is miniscule as compared to our aging population

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This is an episode from 2020 when I interviewed my travel advisor about COVID or other family health issues interrupting travel plans. He created the best 25th anniversary trip to Europe we could have imagined! Contact him at to create your most memorable vacation We find differences in planning for vacations and plann

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