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Starting a business instead of retiring

 
Older entrepreneurs may have the advantage over their younger counterparts due to experience and potentially greater financial resources. In 2012, Kauffman Ewing Institute found that those businesses that survived startup were more likely to have primary owners older than 45.

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Could Google provide the answers for medical questions?

Need your glucose levels to be monitored? It might be as simple as placing a contact in your eye or wearing a pair of glasses. At least that’s what the techies are betting. Bloomberg reported that at least four Google employees met with regulators from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Some of the employees supposed to have been part of the meeting have done research on biosensors. The meeting was between Google staff and FDA employees who regulate eye devices and diagnostics for heart conditions.

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Study links shingles in young adults with higher incidence of stroke

 
Remember having chickenpox? If you’re like most people you had splotchy, itchy skin for a couple weeks as a child unless you were vaccinated and then the disease was gone. While chickenpox can cause problems for people with autoimmune disorders, pregnant women, newborns, teens or adults, it’s usually not a problem for children.

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Nursing home admissions form does not violate federal law

 
Katie White was admitted to Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pennsylvania on March 11, 2009. As part of her admittance, her son, Solomon White acting as her POA signed the admission agreement as a responsible party. This obligated him to apply his mother’s income and assets to her care and held him personally responsible for any misapplication or misappropriations of his mother’s resources.

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Just in time for the holidays: report ties BMI to health care costs

 
A report from Duke Medicine found that health care costs correspond to an individual’s body mass index (BMI). As their BMI increases so too does their health costs. The study published in the journal Obesity, reported that researchers found that medical and drug claims rose gradually with each unit increase in BMI, beginning at a BMI of 19 (considered the low end of healthy).

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Most Medicare patients have good access to doctors

 
Media reports often claim that Medicare patients are unable to find physicians willing to take Medicare and for a variety of reasons are forced to go without medical care. These are troubling concerns as having good access to quality care means being able to find a doctor to see and then being able to schedule timely appointments to see them. It is especially disquieting as due to the aging of the Baby Boomers, the number of new Medicare beneficiaries is expected to grow at a rate of 2 million a year.

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Study finds that not all AL facilities are created equal

 
One alternative to nursing home living is an assisted living facility. These come in all sizes. That statement might seem to be a comment worthy of a “duh” response but the reason that the size of a facility has any bearing is that a new study found that the size of a community determined the demographics of a community. The study analyzed information from the 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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Looking for happiness

 
We’re just slightly more than a week off from wishing nearly everyone in the world Happy New Year. But, have you ever wondered why? Why is it important to have a Happy New Year or a Happy Birthday? In a country whose very foundation is built around a few simple ideals the most important of which include “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” why haven’t we as a nation truly developed what that means?

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New studies indicate vitamins and supplements may be ineffective or worse

Perhaps you’ve heard this a time or two? Eat right, exercise, get plenty of sleep and…take your vitamins. Americans believe in their vitamins. We have entire stores and quite big ones at that dedicated to the belief that we can protect our skin, our brains, our colons, our hearts, and our bones by taking supplements or vitamins to take the place of the dietary needs we are missing out on in our fast-paced world. We do so by handing over $28 billion each year to the U.S. Vitamin and Supplement Industry and we do so in droves.

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Technology and training can delay day for surrendering car keys

The first commercially available automobile became available with the creation of the Model T in 1908.  By the 1950s, construction had started on the national highway system to connect the country by road—just in time for the Boomers to come of legal age to drive.  The Baby Boomer generation’s fascination with the automobile prompted motels, drive thru eateries and hour-long work commutes.  Perhaps because that fascination is threatened now by the Boomers’ aging bodies, at no other time has there been as much emphasis on driver safety as now.

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