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Senior Health: The Facts About Long Term Care Insurance

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) [...]

Health for Seniors | Aging is a Pain…What Should I Expect?

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 [...]

Senior Health: Developing and Maintaining Brain Fitness

By Karl Edmunds: Many seniors have bought into the old story that proclaimed we all experience a slow but steady loss of brain cells (neurons) as we get older. I bought it. In fact, new research is demonstrating that our brains are vibrant and actually retain most of our cells throughout our lives. Brain fitness [...]

For Seniors: How Grandparents Can Improve Family Relationships

By Karl Edmunds: Playing with grand kids for many seniors in today’s environment means sitting and watching the grand kids play video games or perhaps even participating in a video game, if invited. The art of direct and active interaction with family members is almost lost.  Society is being sucked into a world of electronics [...]