Finance & Planning

When parents in Germany move into a care home, a funding shortfall often suddenly arises: Specialist lawyer Stefani Gromes explains where the most costly pitfalls lie when it comes to supporting parents and family property, and how to protect yourself...

Silvia Merschitsch has 32 years of banking experience and knows that if you wait too long to sort out your finances, you risk creating chaos for the whole family. What lasting power of attorney, inheritance and digital inheritance mean -...

More and more Austrians are having doubts about a sufficiently high state pension: this is the mood of a new 2026 pension study. 40 percent rate their own risk of poverty in old age as high.

The topic of adult representation affects thousands of families every year. Although the systems in Austria and Germany are clearly regulated, discussions with Andreas Gschaider (VertretungsNetz/AUT) and Elmar Kreft (Betreuungsgerichtstag e. V./D) show that the number of cases is increasing...

A study by Aarhus University shows: People who are poor have an 85% higher risk of being treated with potentially unsuitable medication.

An IHS study commissioned by the WHO revealed that individual households in Austria are sometimes heavily burdened by private healthcare expenditure. Aids such as wheelchairs or prostheses are not affected by any upper limit.