Familiar television spokesmen like Henry Winkler, "The Fonz" from "Happy Days," and Fred Thompson, actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee, were hired to explain to older homeowners that they can access their home equity as a financial resource, but financial experts caution that reverse mortgages are complicated products that are hardly financial elixirs.

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