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A Guide to Planning for Legal, Financial and Health Care

A Guide to Planning for Legal, Financial and Health Care

Every profession has its own set of verbs, adjectives, pronouns, nouns and general jargon that may require a classroom education to learn.  For senior health, senior fitness, retirement planning  it feel may feel like your are earning a degree just to have the minimal knowledge.   Lawyer and Certified Geriatric Care Manager Buckley Fricker has [...]

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Need A New Hip?  No Really

Need A New Hip? No Really

Need a new hip? Well, you may laugh now, but statistics show that over the past 2 decades the number of Americans having total hip replacement has more than doubled. The number of knee replacements is also expected to reach over 4 million by 2030. Dr. Stephen Barnett is a board certified orthopedic surgeon with [...]

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What’s New For This Week

What’s New For This Week

May is a big month if you want to dedicate it to something.  May is the national month for both the serious and the bizarre.  Of more earnest causes… May is arthritis awareness month, stroke awareness month and for the past 50 years the month we celebrate older adults across the nation month.  The theme [...]

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I’m Retired…and Bored

I’m Retired…and Bored

What happens when a retired man misses his job? Q: I expected to feel great after I retired last year, but most days I’m just miserable. I miss my work, and it turns out that most of my friends were people I knew through my job so I don’t see them much anymore. My wife [...]

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What’s New For This Week

What’s New For This Week

| February 12, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

May is a big month if you want to dedicate it to something.  May is the national month for both the serious and the bizarre.  Of more earnest causes… May is arthritis awareness month, stroke awareness month and for the past 50 years the month we celebrate older adults across the nation month.  The theme [...]

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A Guide to Planning for Legal, Financial and Health Care

A Guide to Planning for Legal, Financial and Health Care

| May 15, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

Every profession has its own set of verbs, adjectives, pronouns, nouns and general jargon that may require a classroom education to learn.  For senior health, senior fitness, retirement planning  it feel may feel like your are earning a degree just to have the minimal knowledge.   Lawyer and Certified Geriatric Care Manager Buckley Fricker has [...]

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Need A New Hip?  No Really

Need A New Hip? No Really

| May 15, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

Need a new hip? Well, you may laugh now, but statistics show that over the past 2 decades the number of Americans having total hip replacement has more than doubled. The number of knee replacements is also expected to reach over 4 million by 2030. Dr. Stephen Barnett is a board certified orthopedic surgeon with [...]

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Does your retirement plan need renovating?

Does your retirement plan need renovating?

| May 7, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

Just like when you sift through your winter clothes after the season and discard what you no longer need, similarly you will want to comb through your retirement planning to ensure it’s on track and working for you and there may be investments you want to get rid of. With the tax season over, now [...]

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Senior Health with Healthy Senior Travel Planning

Senior Health with Healthy Senior Travel Planning

| May 2, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

  The retirement is the best time to experience the beauty of different destinations; that is the period when you need to spend quality time with your spouse and family. It is the most exciting period to explore the world and learn new things; if not anything, then just chill out! With a little planning [...]

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Blood Pressure Down: An Apostle of the Mediterranean Diet

Blood Pressure Down: An Apostle of the Mediterranean Diet

| May 1, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

Sometimes it is easier to believe in miracle cures…food supplements and medical breakthroughs than simple proven formula’s for healthy living.  Author and nutrition expert Janet Brill, Ph.D., adheres to the simple formula.  “There is no medicine more powerful or supplement more effective in promoting health and longevity than the combination of good nutrition and daily [...]

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Jargon-less Financial Planning

Jargon-less Financial Planning

| April 30, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

There are a lot of financial terms and jargon that a financial adviser may throw out at you when it is time to address your retirement planning.  The important thing to ask yourself when you walk out of that advisor’s office, are you really sure you understanding everything he or she is telling you. Other [...]

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The Long Ride: 50+ Dominated Sport

The Long Ride: 50+ Dominated Sport

| April 30, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

When we think of tough grueling sports that take a toll on the body, it’s normally for the young.  After all, their  bodies haven’t gone through years of wear and tear.  A contradiction to that notion, is a favorite among the senior set, says The Long Ride author Lucian Spataro.  At 55, Spataro is one [...]

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Encore Careers

Encore Careers

| April 8, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

Encore careers are becoming the focus of more seniors at they approach or enter retirement. Many people discovered the traditional definition of retirement doesn’t fit them any longer. The thoughts of lounging longer in bed, spending time in the garden or daily golf eventually lost it’s appeal. For retirement planning, Financial Coach Todd Tresidder says: [...]

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Price Shopping For Hospitalization

Price Shopping For Hospitalization

| April 8, 2013 | 0 Comments | Email This Post Email This Post

The day that hospital, surgical and medicare care prices will be like shopping for a new car is probably years away but there are signs that it may be moving in that direction. The Journal of the American Medicare Association reported a study to obtain pricing of common elective hip surgery for senior health. So [...]

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