{"id":1464,"date":"2018-07-19T22:03:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2018-07-19T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:03:10","slug":"steve-stern-of-firstlight-home-care-joins-seniors-first-collaborative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/2018\/07\/19\/steve-stern-of-firstlight-home-care-joins-seniors-first-collaborative\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Stern of FirstLight Home Care Joins Seniors First Collaborative"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Seniors First<\/strong> is launched and includes a full range of legal, financial, housing and lifestyle solutions.\u00a0 Steve Stern<\/strong>, FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston\u2019s President, has joined the collaborative.<\/p>\n

Aging may bring wisdom, but it also creates new challenges and unanswered questions.<\/p>\n

\u2013 How can I structure my retirement to avoid outliving my savings?
\n\u2013 How do I retrofit my home to accommodate aging?
\n\u2013 How do I evaluate in-home resources to provide the extra help I might need?
\n\u2013 How do I protect my legacy for the next generation?<\/p>\n

Seniors First, a newly formed collaborative based in Eastern Massachusetts, offers a single source and well vetted solution. The collaborative includes a wide range of professionals who serve the senior community. Included are Accountants, Estate and Elder Law Attorneys, Financial Planners, Geriatric Care Managers, Home Modification Contractors, In-Home Care Providers, Insurance Professionals, Mortgage and Real Estate Professionals and Registered Investment Advisors.<\/p>\n

Seniors First was created and is championed by Harbor Mortgage Solutions, a family-owned, residential mortgage company serving Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Recognized as a leading housing wealth management authority, Harbor Mortgage is dedicated to serving the unique home financing and often complex needs of senior homeowners, while also promoting those needs among consumers, professional advisors, state legislators and industry regulators.<\/p>\n

In addition to professional services, Seniors First offers educational and objective seminars to Councils on Aging, Senior Centers, fraternal organizations, human resources departments and business groups throughout Eastern Massachusetts. The seminars are moderated panel discussions including qualified experts.<\/p>\n

Seminar topics would range from \u2013<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aging in Place \u2013 From Home Modification to a Helping Hand
\n\u2014 Glorious Aging \u2013 Travel, Making a Difference, Mindfulness
\n\u2014 Hands off \u2013 Keeping your savings for your family
\n\u2014 Before you break a hip \u2013 Planning Ahead
\n\u2014 Will you outlive your savings \u2013 Financial literacy<\/p>\n

Current advisors in the Seniors First collaborative include: Doug Beck, Certified Financial Advisor, Tailwind Wealth Management, Hingham, MA; Mark Bossey, Certified Financial Advisor, Boston Premier Wealth; Matthew Cunningham, Financial Advisor, Flagship Harbor Advisors, Cohasset, MA; Elder Law Attorney Bill Coyne, Boston Legacy Planning, Needham, MA; George Downey, Chris Downey and Brett Kirkpatrick, Housing Wealth Advisors, Harbor Mortgage Solutions, Inc., Braintree, MA; Patrick Flaherty, Guided Living Senior Home Care, Plymouth, MA; JD Miller, Home Care Partners, Hingham, MA; Dick Howell, Wealth Management Advisor, Bullfinch Group, Needham, MA; Lori Howell, Howell Medicare Advisors, Franklin, MA; Elder Law Attorney John Laine, Laine & Associates, Hingham, MA; Elder Law Attorney John O\u2019Connor, O\u2019Connor & O\u2019Connor, LLC, Braintree, MA; and Steve Stern, FirstLight HomeCare of West Suburban Boston, Needham, MA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seniors First is launched and includes a full range of legal, financial, housing and lifestyle solutions.\u00a0 Steve Stern, FirstLight Home Care of West Suburban Boston\u2019s President, has joined the collaborative. Aging may bring wisdom, but it also creates new challenges and unanswered questions. \u2013 How can I structure my retirement…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-west-suburban-boston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}