Articles by Tom West
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When Wealth Can Be Detrimental to Your Health
$25 million bought one family everything except a coherent approach to healthcare
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Dementia Doesn’t End Your Story. It Hands It to Someone Else.
One client shut down. Another tried to control everything. Both had to learn the same uncomfortable truth about who carries your life forward.
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The Abandoned Client Crisis: What Happens When Advisors Walk Away at the Worst Moment
Why I took on a struggling senior with MCI
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The Safety-Deposit Box War
Add in the complexity of family dynamics and it often does not take much to turn a flurry of disagreement into an avalanche of mistrust and anger.
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AI and Aging: Cognitive Crutch or Thinking Cap?
How AI exposes your thought process as you age—for better or worse
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Quarterly Check-Ins Beat Daily Promises for Sticking to Goals
Dispatches from the Gen X front lines
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What March Madness Can Teach Us About Taking Risks
And how to live and invest like the shot clock matters
