To qualify for help you must first lose everything. Created by means-testing: the inheritance must be spent or hidden.
This is a need. Something a person cannot ignore. Non-negotiable, usually urgent, and the most reliable foundation for a business. It is felt by the family, once in a lifetime, and rates 4 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Scarce resources and Belonging.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Means-tested public care funding — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Elder law attorneys and Trusts
Those answers were not free. Between them they created 1 further frictions, which is where the next layer of industries comes from.
Its neighbourhood
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionTo qualify for help you must first lose everything
- SolutionMeans-tested public care funding
- FrictionCare costs more per year than most people saved
- Life phaseDecline
- Rooted inBelonging
- Rooted inScarce resources
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.