Lessons from my 90-year-old mother

Last year, Anne Cabot-Alletzhauser spent a month with her mother and gained some valuable insights into how the financial services industry needs to address issues faced by women, the elderly and the financially uninformed.

Anne Cabot-Alletzhauser

last November I received an urgent call to return “home”. “Home”, in this case, was a place where I had never actually lived, in a country where I hadn’t actually resided for nearly 40 years. Nonetheless, it is where my mother lives and, in a manner of speaking, where one’s mother lives is always “home” in some special way. After a week in hospital, including a 40° fever that persisted for four days, her memory was completely shot. On top of that, at the youthful age of 90, she had just made the bold move to jettison her live-in companion of 15 years. In her pre-fever mind, life was too short to put up with a guy (he was 10 years younger) who was simply “too dependent on her, too chauvinistic…

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Finweek - English (Digital) - 1 Issue, 19-oct-17

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