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Making the mistake of living longer than you planned
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Retirement planning would be easy if we all came with a drop dead date, kind of like the use by date on a milk carton. That’s what financial planners say. Tell them exactly how long you’ll live and they can plan for it; start waffling and it gets harder to plan.Â
5 myths about exercising for older adults
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Have you eliminated your movement-based activities and replaced them with sitting-based activities? In a recent survey, 65 percent of seniors admitted that they had two or more chronic conditions but the survey found that seniors are often apathetic about doing something to improve their health. Â
BMI and mortality rates in old age
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In 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) drew up recommendations for developing public health policies and programs for the prevention and management of obesity in response to a growing health threat in both developed and developing countries all over the world.Â
5 recommendations for deciding treatment for older adults with chronic diseases
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Older adult are especially challenging to treat medically as most Americans live a decade or more at the end of their lives with at least one serious medical condition.Â
Owning a dog can be healthy for you physically and socially
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Want to stay healthier and get to know your neighbors? Get a dog.Â
Will nursing homes go the way of the Dodo?
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Living…and dying is about choices. You can choose to have a family, finish school, take a new job and retire in Florida…or not. If you’re dying you can choose artificial resuscitation or give an order to not resuscitate. And you can choose where you live and die.
To stay out of institutional care, prevent frailty
We’ve all seen older people that looked like a puff of wind could blow them over. While not yet technically disabled, the frail have less endurance and strength than their sturdier contemporaries.Â
The link between self-employment tax and federal taxes
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A caller to the AgingOptions Radio show asked Rajiv why he didn’t get credit for his Social Security taxes when he paid them. For those people like the caller who are self-employed, they pay both the employer’s and the employee’s part of the Social Security tax or as it is known Self-Employment Tax. Â
Living in your own home means taking steps to avoid falls
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Frank Morris was a celebrated veteran, active in his church and loved to volunteer in his community. He and his wife, Lola danced weekly with a local square dancing club and also loved to walk their neighborhood together every day. While working on the house one day, Frank needed a ladder to reach a can of paint. While on the ladder he took a misstep and fell and broke his femur. Everyone expected him to make a full recovery but Frank died several weeks later.