How Not to Go Broke at 102!: Achieving Everlasting Wealth

307 Pages·2004·14.28 MB·English

by  Adriane G. Berg

A D R I A N E G. BERG
HOW NOT
How Not to Go Broke at 102!
Achieving Everlasting Wealth
Adriane G. Berg
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

How Not to Go Broke at 102!

How Not to Go Broke at 102!
Achieving Everlasting Wealth
Adriane G. Berg
8
wl LEY
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Copyright O 2004 by Adriane G. Berg. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationD ata:
Berg, Adriane G.
How not to go broke at 102! : achieving everlasting wealth I Adriane G. Berg.
p. an.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-471-46727-8 (CLOTH)
1. Aged-Finance., Personal. 2. Retirement income-United
States-Planning. 3. Retirement-United States-Planning. 4. Saving
and investment-United States. 5. Social security-United States. 6.
Medicare. I. Title.
HG179.B435 2004
Printed in the United States of America.
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To my mother,
Gertrude Horowitz Berg,
who is as beautiful at 86 as she was at 16;
mavbe more so.
And to Dorte Schreiber,
my friend,
who proves that wisdom and grace are ageless

Acknowledgments
Iw ould like to thank and acknowledge some very special people
who have meant so much to my life, my way of thinking, and
consequently to the contents of this book.
To my husband and the wind beneath my wings, Stuart Bochner,
who encouraged me to write as I think and speak, and never fear re-
vealing too much of myself.
To my daughter, Rose Phoebe Bochner, who saw mostly my back as I
bent over the computer for months on end, but who never lost her
good temper or the song and dance of her spirit.
To my son Arthur Ross Bochner, a brilliant young writer whose good
judgment steered me right many times.
To my close friends Sharon Streicher and Dr. Stanley Streicher, Judy
Block and Dr. Fred Block, Nancy Jacobi Akbari and Ahmad Akbari,
Risa Olinsky and Mark Olinsky, and Lorri Grief, and to my life coach
Daniel Chayefsky, all of whom will understand every joke and refer-
ence in this book.
To one of the great pioneers in the field of aging and longevity, Dr.
Robert Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner for his Why Survive?Being Old in
America and founder of the International Longevity Center in New
York.