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AIFLP Organizing Team, "Toward a richness of life: A White Paper on the advantages of integrating financial and life planning and the need for a professional association to promote it", Integrative Adviser, June 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 1)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0101.pdf
White Paper used to establish the Association for Integrative Financial and Life Planning
Anderson Keith A., et al, "Hairstylists’ Relationships and Helping Behaviors With Older Adult Clients", Journal of Applied Gerontology, June 2010 (Vol. 29, No. 3)
http://jag.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/29/3/371
The authors studied the close relationships between older patients and their hairdressers, which the authors say point toward the potential inclusion of stylists in community gatekeeper programs that provide an important link between in-formal and formal helping networks.
Integrative Adviser
Association for Integrative Financial and Life Planning, Bi-Monthly, Free
http://www.aiflp.org/AIFLP_publications.htm
A journal to help define and develop what integrative, holistic planning is and how it can work, to promote its adoption, and to advocate for issues that will support clients receiving such advice
Clement, Matthew, "Should We Talk About the Weather? The Role of Conversation and Choice in Professional Planning", Integrative Adviser, August 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 2)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0102.pdf
This article illuminates issues of communication where client/adviser, client/planner, and client/coach relationships have a common bond, and a common challenge
Cordell, David M., and Langdon, Thomas P., "Academic Research That Is Relevant to Financial Service Professionals", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, 2008
Cordell and Langdon argue that advisors should be paying attention to academic research that relates to their field.
Dubofsky, David, and Sussman, Lyle, "Changing Role of the Financial Planner, The, Part 1: From Financial Analytics to Coaching and Life Planning", Journal of Financial Planning, August 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 8)
Dubofsky and Sussman present the eye-opening results of a survey of 1,374 financial planners about their involvement with coaching and life planning within their practices.
Duska, Ronald F., "Who Deserves What?", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, September 2009
Duska notes that need, equality, and merit are reasons to come to the aid of the “deserving.” But what should prevail when legitimate concerns conflict?
Garmaise, Ena, "Patterns of Financial Well-Being and Their Implications for Financial Advice", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, May 2010
Garmaise employs a new measure of financial well-being — the subjective assessment of financial security and stability — and provides specific recommendations for how patterns in financial well-being can be deployed to frame financial advice
Gerontological Society of America
Active in: USA
1220 L Street NW, Suite 901, Washington, DC 20005
Telephone:202-842-1275
Fax:202-842-1150
http://www.geron.org/
A professional society to promote scientific study of aging in both the biomedical and behavioral/social sciences.
Jetton, Elizabeth, "Putting the Pieces Together for the Third Age", Aging Well, Summer 2008
Jetton makes the case for holistic planning, and collaboration between financial planners and other advising professionals.
Jetton, Elizabeth, Moving from Financial Planning to Financial Life Planning
TIAA-CREF Institute, August 2009, Free
http://www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/pdf/research/trends_issues/ti_financialplanning0809a.pdf
Jetton describes the scope, importance, methods, and success measurement of holistic planning, urging traditional financial planners to step up to this kind of approach.
MacBean, E. Craig, "Integrative Advising", Integrative Adviser, June 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 1)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0101.pdf
Makes the case for an approach to advising clients that spans all seven domains of life and that takes into account future stages of life, up to and including death.
MacBean, E. Craig, "Are Integrative Advising - and Seeking Integrative Advice - Ethical Imperatives?", Integrative Adviser, October 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 2)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0103.pdf
Argues that as a matter of ethical principle or ethical consequence advisors - financial and otherwise - are obliged, even compelled, to take a broader and more integrative approach to advising their clients than their narrow specialty affords
Maton, Cicily Carson, et al, "Collaborating with a Financial Therapist: The Why, Who, What, and How", Journal of Financial Planning, December 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 12)
The authors argue strongly for collaboration between financial advisors and financial therapists, and provide very practical advice on how to do this in a beneficial, productive fashion.
Nelson, John E., "Planning for Well-Being", Integrative Adviser, June 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0302.pdf, Free
Describes why 'well-being' is an ideal organizing concept for holistic planning, and describes a specific approach to implementing that concept.
Sussman, Lyle, and Dubofsky, David, "Changing Role of the Financial Planner, The, Part 2: Prescriptions for Coaching and Life Planning", Journal of Financial Planning, September 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 9)
Sussman and Dubofsky address the personal, professional, and ethical implications of holistic approaches to planning.
Van Zutphen, Neal, "Visual Aid for Successful Financial Planning, A: The Happiness Risk / Reward Pyramid", Journal of Financial Planning, January 2010 (Vol. 23, No. 1)
Van Zutphen combines the work of Abraham Maslow and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross with ideas from Changing for Good by Prochaska, Norcross and DiClemente, to create a visual aid that can help planners unite financial concerns with deeper issues.
Walker, Lewis J., "Conversations and Social Networking", Journal of Financial Planning, June 2010 (Vol. 23, No. 6)
Walker encourages the use of social media and other modes of conversation to ex-change ideas that go beyond the num-bers
Yanikoski, Charles S., "Conceptual Scheme for Integrative Financial and Life Planning, A", Integrative Adviser, December 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 4)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0104.pdf, Free
Yanikoski presents an overview of a holistic planning concept for older clients, based on information about their metaphysical stance, their personalities, and the facts and circumstances of their lives.
Yanikoski, Charles S., New Wild West, The: Integrating Fi-nancial and Life Planning in the Second Half of Life
Still River Retirement Planning Software, Inc., August 2009, Free
http://www.stillriverretire.com/Downloads/IntegrativePlanning_paper.pdf
Yanikoski argues that integrative planning is inevitably in our future, and outlines how it might work.
Industry / vendors / associations
Yakoboski, Paul J., "Use and Impact of Advice among Near-Retriees, The", Trends and Analysis, February 2010
http://www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/pdf/research/trends_issues/ti_nearretirees0210a.pdf, Free
This study is of employees in higher education and deals with financial issues primarily, but it finds that older employees are more likely to both seek and implement advice.
Yanikoski, Charles S., "Future of Integrative Planning, The", Integrative Adviser, June 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0302.pdf, Free
Yanikoski forecasts the progress expected in the development and growth of Integrative Advising over a five- and ten-year timeframe.
Other / general / not specified
Association for Integrative Financial and Life Planning (AIFLP)
Active in: USA, Australia, South Africa
69 Lancaster County Rd., Harvard, MA 01451
Telephone:978-456-7971
Fax:978-456-7972
csy@StillRiverRetire.com
http://www.AIFLP.org
Association for financial advisors, life coaches, and others interested or involved in these processes. Our mission is to promote the integration of financial and non-financial planning, especially (but not exclusively) for older clients. We distribute The Integrative Adviser bimonthly.
Pew Research Center
Active in: USA
1615 L Street, NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036
Telephone:202-419-4300
Fax:202-419-4349
http://pewresearch.org/
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan 'fact tank' that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take positions on policy issues.
Population Reference Bureau
Active in: USA, International
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 520, Washington, DC 20009-5728
Telephone:800-877-9881
Fax:202-328-3937
popref@prb.org
http://www.prb.org/
The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations.
SPRY Foundation
Active in: USA
3916 Rosemary Street, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Telephone:301.656.3405
Fax:301-656-6221
morganr@spry.org
SPRY carries out applied research and education programs designed to enable people to age with purpose, and to continue to have meaningful engagement in their lives. Of special concern are disadvantaged and vulnerable populations.
Urban Institute
Active in: USA, International
2100 M Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037
Telephone:202-833-7200
http://www.urban.org/
The Urban Institute is a nonpartisan organization that gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues in order to foster sound public policy and effective government.