Alzheimer’s Disease and your Parents’ Independence
One in nine people age 65 and older will acquire Alzheimer’s—that’s one person every 33 seconds! As we become healthier, our bodies can let us live longer. Unfortunately, that gives Alzheimer’s an even worse odds too, because until now, many simply died before acquiring the disease. By the time many of you (as children of... Read More
How to Reduce Your Parent’s Chances of Falling
Exercising such as walking and muscle strengthening, and perhaps balance and stretching exercises too can actually help mitigate or even prevent the effects of osteoarthritis. And there is a strong link between osteoarthritis and falls, though this is one of many reasons. But to point out a few interesting facts: One 2009 study reported in... Read More
Avoid the Nursing Home by Staying Fit Today
In my opinion the best time to start fitness for your retirement years should start in your fifties or sixties. That’s not to say that those who exercise beginning at an early age have it wrong. Starting at any age is great. The CDC reports that for those aging from 55-64: only 35% exercise, those... Read More
Long-term Care Talking Points
Chances are, if you are approaching your 50s, you might have a parent in their 70s who may be at risk of requiring eventual long-term care. If you are like most people, you’d probably delay any thoughts about imagining them needing long-term care sometime in the future. That is, until one day, like me, you... Read More
Maximizing Health into Older Age
If you calculated your lifespan online (like here: https://www.bankrate.com/calculators/retirement/life-age-expectancy-calculator.aspx) you might be lucky and unlucky. You might be lucky to see you may live to 80 or more. But unlucky if you are not planning on staying healthy into retirement and become unhealthy for years. This could be hard on you emotionally, but also financially.... Read More
Social Security and Early Retirement
I’m no financial planner. But I know that I can probably count on the fact that I will have some social security coming to me. But for years I’ve been hearing our country will run out of social security. Less tragically, some say that by 2025 insolvency won’t be complete, rather, a 20% reduction in... Read More