If you’re interested in living a longer life, it helps if you’re a female, at least in the United States. According to the CDC, U.S. men can expect to live about 73.5 years, while their female counterparts will live almost six years longer. That’s a lot of extra time to enjoy life – but it’s … Read more

It’s the question every soon-to-be retiree asks, studies, and debates: is there an exact best time to claim those Social Security benefits? After all, you worked three or four decades or more to earn those monthly direct deposits. What’s more, if you’re like most people, your Social Security benefit will be a major part of … Read more

Here’s a quiz for you: name the one activity that everyone agrees is vitally important for a longer, healthier life – yet only one senior in eight actually does it. The answer is regular exercise, and we confess to being numbered among those with good intentions but a sad lack of follow-through. “Regular exercise” remains … Read more

If you’re married, you and your spouse may be the same age, or close to it – but your levels of general health may be far different. As one spouse starts to need more daily care, the couple faces a dilemma. Do they stay in the home with the healthier spouse as caregiver? Do they … Read more

Just a few months ago here on the Blog, we brought you this troubling story about a problem called “polypharmacy” – a situation we described as “a chronic case of nationwide medication overload.” Now a new report shows just how dire the consequences of poorly-managed prescriptions can be. In our earlier Blog post published last … Read more

Are you 65 or older and still making mortgage payments? You’re not alone. Recent statistics from LendingTree show that roughly 10 million homeowners 65-plus are still paying on their mortgages – about 1 older homeowner in five. As nice as it would be to have a paid-off home in retirement, that goal remains elusive for … Read more

The most important bit of advice we can offer about your estate plan is to have one. The second most important advice: keep it up to date. Your circumstances will inevitably change as your life goes on, and odds are those documents you had prepared back when the senior George Bush was President could stand … Read more

Cognitive decline is a very real part of life for millions of seniors and their families. The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that one-third of seniors will die with some form of dementia, not necessarily as the cause of death, but as a factor that often complicates their lives, and the lives of those they love, in … Read more

When most of us were growing up, fairness was everything. If our slice of birthday cake was a millimeter or two smaller than the slice served to Johnny or Janey, we probably had a fit and claimed, “That’s not fair!” For the majority of people, beginning in childhood, “fair” has always meant “equal.” But does … Read more

Here at the Blog, we’ve heard the term “SuperAgers” before. It turns out the notion of calling some seniors “SuperAgers” goes back at least a decade and a half, and it refers (as we’ll see below) to men and women in their eighties and beyond whose memory seems not to have diminished since they were … Read more