Melanie called the AgingOptions Radio Show last week. She’s turning 65 shortly and has been unemployed for about a year. She’d been told that she should wait until age 70 to collect but her unemployment benefits were running out in a couple weeks.Â
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Is it time to fire your doctor?
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If you are over 70 and have diabetes you’re not alone. As many as one in five individuals over the age of 65 have Type 2 diabetes but when it comes to treating the disease for those individuals, doctors rely on a one-size fits all approach that aggressively reduces blood glucose levels but does little to take other needs into account.Â
Court finds son not liable for mother's nursing home bill
China’s been in the news lately as it tries to enforce a recently enacted filial law requiring adult children to pay regular visits to their elderly parents. But closer to home, we’ve had our own filial laws in the news including a story that came out this week in which a Montana man’s mom received care from a nursing home.Â
Study finds that people aged better than those born 10 years earlier
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People born in 1915 lived longer and scored significantly higher cognitively than their peers born ten years earlier.Â
Why Social Security and Medicare won't be enough
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Are you interested in bargains? Personally, I think we all have a little of the gene that exults in getting a good deal. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that I love Social Security and Medicare.Â
Boomers more likely to retire at 65 but retirement looks a lot like work
Is there optimism about the economy in the wind? Evidently the baby boomers can smell something because a survey by Del Webb, the nation’s leading builder of retirement communities found that those individuals 50 to 60 years old were more likely to plan to retire by age 65 than those surveyed just three years ago. Â
Soaring long term care rates leave seniors without a safety net
When you were in your 50s, you may have joined a very select group of people by buying a long term care policy. It may have seemed like the ideal way to keep control of the prohibitive costs of long term care. And when you were in your 50s, it probably was.Â
Has technology prepared you for the role of caregiver?
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Nearly forty percent of American adults provide care for sick or elderly relatives according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project and those caregivers have become heavy technology users.
Health blurbs in the news
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Here are some mostly unrelated news items from this week about saving health care dollars, getting an expert opinion and avoiding medication problems when the grandchildren visit.
James Gandolfini’s Killer has powerful accomplices: Misinformation and the status quo
This is a guest blog from Dr. Robert Emerick, the Founder, President and Interventional Cardiologist at Choice Cardiovascular, a direct practice (also called concierge medicine or boutique medicine). Dr. Emerick’s website can be found at http://www.choicecardiovascular.com/.
James Gandolfini, well known to many of us as the likeable, yet brutal and sociopathic, family man, modern-day don of the HBO drama, The Sopranos, collapsed suddenly last Wednesday night in his Rome hotel bathroom.Â