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  • Senior Health | Can Senior Citizens Preserve Memory by Using the Computer?
    Seniors Learning to Use Computers By Jan Shapan: Computer literacy among the senior population above the age of 70+ is still nominal but as the current wave of Boomers move into that age range, computer literacy is expected to jump. And new findings suggest computer literacy may be a positive contributor to overall senior health. Senior citizens that use a computer ...
    May 14th, 2010 at 08:05 pm
  • Retirement Planning | Will You Enjoy Social Security Benefits in Your Senior Years?
    Retirement Planning By Karl Edmunds: As beginners to the journey of seniorhood, many wonder, including me, whether our continuous contributions to the Social Security program will payoff with something reasonable. Is our pessimistic views founded on facts or emotions? Let’s take a look… First you must decide which source of data is most accurate. This is a serious ...
    May 14th, 2010 at 07:05 pm
  • For Seniors: How to Avoid Mistakes Selecting a Financial Advisor
    By Karl Edmunds: Almost everyone has felt the pleasure and pain of financial mistakes. Whether you have a good retirement plan and make all your own decisions or engage an outside investment advisor, you are not going to have a perfect track record. Personally, I think the vast majority of people will do better with outside help of some kind as long as you don’t blindly ...
    May 11th, 2010 at 03:05 pm
  • Senior Health | Is a Germ Free Home Obsession Worthwhile or Healthy?
    Is a Germ Free Home Healthy? by Janet Shapan : Everywhere I turn in today’s climate, I am assaulted from media and sometimes friends for using the wrong cleaners, using the right cleaners in the wrong way or not using them often enough to avoid disease and other germ-oriented contaminations. Depending on who you listen to, there are now 300+ household cleaning and beauty ...
    April 28th, 2010 at 12:04 am
  • Senior Health: Is Hospice Care Right For You or a Loved One?
    Hospice Care By Jan Shapan : There will likely come a time in your life that either yourself or a loved one will be forced to deal with a terminal illness. The first response, of course, is to fight it and try to fix the problem. And we should pursue all avenues of healing. However, intuitively there comes a time when the quality of life becomes more important than the ...
    April 27th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
  • Insurance For Seniors: Don’t Walk Away From Life Insurance Policies You Can No Longer Afford
    Senior Life Insurance By Karl Edmunds : Thousands of seniors across the country have carefully followed the good retirement planning recommendations of their advisors only to find themselves in their late 70s or 80s with life insurance policies that are no longer affordable. Too many think the only solution is to take whatever cash value, if any in the policy, and let ...
    April 27th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
  • For Senior Health: Understanding the Basics of Long Term Care Insurance
    Long Term Senior Care By Karl Edmunds: For many seniors and especially elderly people, there is a constant nagging worry about the risk of getting sick or disabled in some way and being compelled to use precious retirement assets to pay for the needed care. So far, roughly 8 million or so Americans have purchased long term care (LTC) insurance to mitigate these concerns. ...
    April 27th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
  • Health for Seniors | Aging is a Pain…What Should I Expect?
    Aging Pain By Jan Shapan : Personally, I am facing 60 years of age and feeling some new aches and pains. Do we just close our eyes and tolerate the emerging physical and mental symptoms of aging or is there something we can do? First in doing a little personal searching, I discovered, to no real surprise that some of my aches are not really abnormal but I should take ...
    April 27th, 2010 at 02:04 pm
  • Senior Health: Don’t Let Depression Suck the Life From You
    Seniors Battling Depression By Jan Shapan: For many seniors and elderly people, the loss of mobility, flexibility and the emergence of pain and aches associated with aging bring a certain sadness and despair. This loss of vitality and life purpose is often undiagnosed depression. Some of the signs of depression among senior loved ones can be: ambivalence or indifference ...
    April 15th, 2010 at 08:04 am
  • Senior Living: How to Enjoy the Sun and Avoid Skin Cancer
    Skin Cancer By Janet Shapan: The lure of the outdoors is here for almost everyone. Working in the yard, going to parks with grand kids, sports and barbecues are just a few activities most seniors are planning over the next several months. But spending time in the sun can be a costly adventure for seniors. With age, the skin is more susceptible to damage and cancers of ...
    April 15th, 2010 at 08:04 am
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