Retirees and workers have differing views of how to invest and draw income from their assets. Retirees typically share a few major issues in common. They don't like losses. They are afraid of running out of money. They are reluctant to learn new things or change their vision of what they should do with their money.
Kevin Shannon, 68, said he believes the art of writing and a chance friendship banished the demons of his post-traumatic stress disorder – a condition not diagnosed until 2005.
Q: I am worried that my mother is not drinking enough and will become dehydrated with the summer heat. What are the signs of dehydration?
Despite the back-to-school ads, and the fact that the local Stop and Shop was displaying Halloween candy in July, it’s still summer.
Three times a week, Priscilla Caskin walks to the gym and works out. This month, she’ll celebrate her 98th birthday.
An overview of the most popular scams and how to protect your information.
Hospice nurse Elissa Al-Chokhachy publishes the narratives of people who have experienced the presence of loved ones after their death.
Despite anecdotal evidence, experts have yet to acknowledge a cause-and-effect relationship between weather changes and physical discomfort. At the same time, rheumatologists can't ignore the complaints of their patients.
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who need dentures, you may have questions about what getting them will entail. Although dentures take some getting used to, they will improve your appearance and health. Here are five important things to know about dentures, according to the American Dental Association.
Volunteering is nothing new to this generation of service-minded baby boomers. With nearly one-third of all boomers — 25.8 million people — volunteering for a formal organization in 2005, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, today’s retirees are filling their days doing work for the greater good. Looking for a way to give back? Here are a few ideas on where you might find your niche, whether it’s assisting today’s youth, helping homebound seniors or greening the world through conservation efforts.
If just thinking about doing yard work this fall makes your back ache, you might want to consider getting some ergonomic yard tools to ease the pain.
Now that it’s fashionable to go gray, there’s a wide variety of products on the market aimed at women with naturally silver hair. How do you know which ones will deliver? “The most crucial step in maintaining gray or white color is using a purple or blue shampoo,” says Deborah Steele of Tribeca Color Salon in South Tampa, Fla. “I recommend that my clients use these every other shampoo to neutralize yellow tones.” Don’t overuse these products, however, or you could soon be sporting purplish-tinted hair. “Look for products with a smoothing factor,” she says.
More than 50 percent of first marriages dissolve in divorce. With a 60 percent failure rate, second marriages are no better. Can marital longevity and happiness truly co-exist?
"The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities" is a good resource with many ideas for activities for elders with memory loss. There are two volumes.
The Delaware Senior Olympics held its 2010 Bricks MultiSport Team Invitational Triathlon competition at Lake Como on July 17.
What do physicians and hospice nurses know about dying that we don’t? Much that would make the impending death of a loved one easier to understand and endure. For many, witnessing the process creates a miasma of conflicting emotions. Fear. Helplessness. Uncertainty. Hospice and palliative, or comfort, care for patients nearing the end of life smoothes the way for patients and their loved ones.
Every day I look at the five cartons of papers still sitting in my closet where I put them when I moved here seven years ago. Every day, I promise to “get rid of them.”
It’s amazing how different cataract surgery is from what it was. My parents remind me of how people had to lie flat in the hospital for days, their heads held still by sandbags. Afterward, they wore thick “Coke bottle” glasses. This was standard into the 1970s.
More people are getting divorced after the third, fourth, even fifth decade of marriage. Here's how to keep a marriage alive and well in the golden years.
