Elizabeth Djinis

2 weeks ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Elizabeth Djinis

Tyni Lazzaro was raised in Brooklyn, and in her early 20s, she worked at high-end retail stores in New York City like Barneys New York and Wolford. There, she began taking notes, thinking, “In my own place, I would do this.” Lazzaro’s family moved to Sarasota 17 years ago, and when she eventually followed suit, it was here that her retail dreams came to life.

1 month ago | thepennyhoarder.com | Elizabeth Djinis

Discovering your loved one has dementia is a heartbreaking moment. But early diagnosis is actually key to better outcomes, and the early signs of the condition often show up in people’s finances. Medicare beneficiaries who are later diagnosed with dementia are more likely to “miss payments on bills as early as six years before a clinical diagnosis,” based on a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins. So, dementia affecting finances is common.

1 month ago | teenvogue.com | Elizabeth Djinis

When I moved to Italy two years ago, I didn’t have plans to sign up for the national health service, as I’d been warned about a universal truth of any bureaucratic process there: One task always seems to beget another. But the first time I got sick, the choice no longer felt voluntary. On the precipice of losing my voice, I called various doctors, all the while taking sips from my mug of tea, hoping to secure an appointment for sometime that week.

1 month ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Elizabeth Djinis

After spending the 1980s traveling the Eastern Seaboard in a Volkswagen bus with their young family, artists Laura Jean and David Clark landed in Sarasota in 1992 and decided to open a consignment store. Laura Jean’s Consignments’ original location proved to be so popular that, in less than a decade, the business expanded to three stores. Sustainability may be a buzzword today, but in the early ’90s, the concept was less ubiquitous.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Elizabeth Djinis

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