tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50232547386106963382023-11-16T04:07:42.871-08:00Boomers RetirementWhere to retire, When to retire? How much money do I need? How to survive the early retirement? Should I retire or work longer? Should I withdraw my Social Security now or wait?RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.comBlogger274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-69053301371473141542022-06-30T12:02:00.006-07:002022-08-24T11:11:31.219-07:00How Moving Can Help Cope with the Loss of a Loved One <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 22pt; text-align: center;">How Moving Can Help Cope with the
Loss of a Loved One</span></p><table cellpadding="0" class="cf gJ" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin-top: 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="display: block;"><tr class="acZ xD" style="display: flex; height: auto;"><td colspan="3" style="margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" class="cf adz" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; white-space: nowrap; width: 603.018px;"><tbody><tr class="acZ" style="display: flex; height: auto;"><td class="gF gK" style="display: block; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 296.351px;"><table cellpadding="0" class="cf ix" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; width: 296.351px;"><tbody><tr><td class="c2" style="display: flex; margin: 0px;"><h3 class="iw" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: auto; color: #5f6368; font-size: 0.75rem; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 20px; margin: inherit; max-width: calc(100% - 8px); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="qu" role="gridcell" style="outline: none;" tabindex="-1" translate="no"><span class="gD" data-hovercard-id="karen@elderwellness.net" data-hovercard-owner-id="105" email="karen@elderwellness.net" name="Karen Weeks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #202124; display: inline; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="position: relative; vertical-align: top;">By: Karen Weeks</span></span> </span></h3></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="gH" style="align-items: center; color: #222222; display: flex; margin: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><br /></td></tr><tr class="acZ xD" style="display: flex; height: auto;"><td colspan="3" style="margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" class="cf adz" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; white-space: nowrap; width: 603.018px;"><tbody><tr><td class="ady" style="align-items: center; display: flex; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><div class="iw ajw" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 92%; overflow: hidden;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Losing
a loved one is a major life event that can leave a person feeling </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/complicated-grief/symptoms-causes/syc-20360374"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">overwhelmed</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, depressed, and unable to cope.
While tackling some major changes soon after can be a bad idea, some people
feel that a move can actually be helpful. Removing yourself from a situation
that reminds you of your loved one can help you focus on your mental health,
and a new environment will allow you to meet new people and move forward in a
positive way. </span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boomers Retirement</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> shares a few ideas on how you can
make the most of the benefits of moving after the loss of a loved one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reduce the Stress of Buying a Home<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">M</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">oving
comes with a lot to think about, but if you prepare for the big things ahead of
time, you can reduce the stress associated with finding a new place. One of the
most important parts of a move is finding funding for your home, and there are
many different options when it comes to </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/how-to-get-a-mortgage/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">securing a mortgage</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. Figure out a budget and do
research to find out which option is best for your needs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
last thing you need during this time is to purchase a home with a lot of
problems. Therefore, it’s </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/sold-as-is"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">best to avoid</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> buying a home “as is” even if it
seems like you’re getting a good deal. These homes have major issues, and you
may encounter pest infestations, mold, asbestos, structural problems, and more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ask for Help<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">One
important aspect of moving forward after losing a loved one is deciding how to
deal with the things they left behind. You may be faced with clothing or other </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://modernloss.com/what-to-keep-when-someone-dies/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">personal items</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> of theirs that will make it
difficult for you to consider moving on, so it’s a good idea to ask for help
from a close friend or family member who can help you sort through those
belongings and figure out the best place for them. </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.thespruce.com/where-to-donate-everything-in-home-2648117"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Donating items</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> to those in need is a great start
because you can be assured that the things your loved one treasured will still
have importance for someone else.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Also,
when it comes to the actual move, don’t try to do everything yourself. You’re
better off hiring professionals to </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.moving.com/tips/hiring-quality-movers/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lend a helping hand</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. You can browse ratings and reviews
and request a quote in advance to make sure you’re getting the best deal, as
well.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Talk to Someone<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">It’s
a good idea to look for someone you can talk to in your new area about
everything you’ve gone through. A licensed therapist or counselor can help you
get through your loss so you can transition to a new lifestyle more smoothly.
Remember that the goal is not to forget about your loved one, but rather to
make it easier for you to accept that they are gone so you can move forward in
a healthy way.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If
you don’t feel comfortable talking to someone in person, you might look for </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://plushcare.com/online-doctor/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an online visit</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> for mental health care. With online
treatment, you’ll have access to many more doctors, won’t have to travel
anywhere, and save if you don’t have insurance. It’s also possible to quickly
have prescriptions filled and refilled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Making
such a major life decision after losing a loved one may seem overwhelming at
first, but it could be hugely beneficial in the long run. Remember to focus on
your mental health and ask for help from the people who are your support system
so you can feel good about your decisions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-size: small;">Karen</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-size: small;"> </span><span class="il" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-size: small;">Weeks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://elderwellness.net">elderwellness.net</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-size: small;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><a href="mailto:karen@elderwellness.net" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank"><span class="il">karen</span>@elderwellness.net</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-60610620630084157572022-02-03T12:00:00.003-08:002022-02-03T12:00:40.103-08:00Depression for Seniors<p>I am going to post an article from USA Today. I think it is appropriate for today's atmosphere and </p><p>our current world affairs. <br /><br />Do you feel sad and lonely? Do you feel regret about your past decision in your life? </p><p>What if you can do it over again? What would you do or change? </p><p>Well, it is not possible, so what do you do? </p><p>From my own personal experiences, there is not much you could do, however, it</p><p>is best NOT to keep it bottled up inside. (MORE LATER)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><header style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2228; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit-Bold, Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; max-width: 16em;">I miss everything. I miss everybody': Depression rates for seniors are soaring amid COVID-19</h1></header><div class="caas-attribution-with-share" style="align-items: end; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2228; display: flex; flex-flow: row nowrap; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="aol-attr" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><a class="link rapid-noclick-resp aol-attr__provider-logo" data-ylk="elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY" href="https://uw-media.usatoday.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #188fff; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 24.1291px; justify-content: center; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><img alt="USA TODAY" class="caas-img" data-src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/d2oVqJnr0kd2I0eNxWJySA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTM0ODtoPTgw/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2021-07/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/d2oVqJnr0kd2I0eNxWJySA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTM0ODtoPTgw/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2021-07/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 40px; max-width: 115px; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 10px;" /></a><div class="aol-attr__author" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 39.9974px; justify-content: center; padding-left: 10px;"><div class="aol-attr-item-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="aol-attr__author--title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">MARC RAMIREZ, USA TODAY</span></span></div><time class="aol-attr__author--time" datetime="2022-02-02T18:51:24.000Z" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.923em;">February 2, 2022, 10:51 AM<br /><br /><br /></time></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">When she retired from her job as a hospital technician in 2011, Johnnie Lilly soon found that she felt lonely. She told herself: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I’m going to get out and do something</em>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">That’s how the 79-year-old Texas resident came to work with preschool kids as part of a reading program run by The Senior Source, an <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:older-adult advocacy" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/11/advocates-worry-chronically-ill-disabled-covid-19-devalued/2947642001/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #188fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">older-adult advocacy</a> agency serving greater Dallas.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Then came the <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:COVID-19 pandemic" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/24/covid-vaccines-mandates-masks-cases-deaths/6632438001/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #188fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">COVID-19 pandemic</a>. With many schools and organizations suspending in-person operations as part of a <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:national shutdown" href="https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/coronavirus-reopening-america-map/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #188fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">national shutdown</a>, the activity she’d loved was gone.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“It was so enjoyable and enlightening,” Lilly said. “The kids just gave me so much pleasure. I miss them so much. 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Now, nearly two years in, they say government mandates and precautionary measures meant to control the virus by limiting social interaction have taken an emotional, mental and physical toll.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Geriatric workers say rates of depression and anxiety have risen among their clients in that time, and in more severe cases, those conditions have led to cognitive and physical deterioration, or worse.</p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2228; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;"><img aria-hidden="true" class="vp-start-screen-image" height="403" src="https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/O1GU0WUaIRdbhJJy609whQ--~B/Zmk9ZmlsbDtweW9mZj0wO3c9NjQwO2g9MzYwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://s.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/prod/2021-09/16/6143820289e9c765ac7238c9/614382071036250001aec150_1080x1080_FES_v1.jpg" style="background-color: black; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Carla Perissinotto, a geriatrician and palliative physician who works with mostly homebound patients in San Francisco, has seen similar patterns with her clients.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“There are people who used to be able to walk, and suddenly, because of weeks in their room, they lost the ability to do so,” she said. “That’s huge.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Perissinotto served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that issued a <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:February 2020 report" href="https://www.nap.edu/read/25663/chapter/2" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #188fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">February 2020 report</a> that found one-fourth of U.S. residents 65 and over said they were socially isolated, while 40% described themselves as lonely.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">While loneliness – the subjective feeling of being alone – is a growing global concern for all groups, social isolation, defined as an objective lack of social contact with others, is a particular risk for older adults.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">The reasons can be summed up in one word: Loss. As years pass, seniors face loss of life partners and social networks, loss of sight and hearing, loss of travel opportunities, loss of a sense of value to society.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“They’re losing friends as they age,” said Kathleen Cameron, senior director of the National Council on Aging’s Center for Healthy Aging. “They’re no longer in the workplace. They’re experiencing an increase in disabilities like vision impairment, or they may have a chronic illness that reduces their ability to be as mobile.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">The National Academies report linked loneliness and social isolation to poor physical and mental health outcomes, from depression and cognitive decline – including a 50% higher risk of dementia – to higher mortality rates. Among heart-failure patients, loneliness was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk of death.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">With the pandemic, things only got worse.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Like Lilly, many who benefited from the social interaction of a part-time job or volunteer work saw those opportunities disappear. Even as COVID vaccines have led to eased restrictions and reopening of public places, many older adults – who are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill or dying from virus complications – remain hesitant to reenter society.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“You had fully independent people with thriving social lives who found themselves fearful of going outside,” said Meredith Levine, senior director of Jewish Association Serving the Aging, which serves 40,000 clients in New York City. “The initial anxiety has subsided, but this changing world has fostered different anxieties. This isn’t how they thought they would be spending their golden years.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Advocacy & Services for LGBT Elders, a New-York-based organization known as SAGE, found that calls to its national LGBTQ+ <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:elder hotline" href="https://www.sageusa.org/what-we-do/sage-national-lgbt-elder-hotline/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #188fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">elder hotline</a> increased tenfold during the pandemic, going from 20 to 30 calls a month pre-COVID to more than 200 monthly calls now.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“Anxiety is the number-one concern,” said Sherrill Wayland, the agency’s director of national education initiatives. “People are dealing with a lot of stress.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Lilly, the retired hospital worker, knows the feeling.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“When it all started, it was awful,” she said. “We were having to stay in, and that was the worst part, listening to the news about how many people were dying. In New York, they had all those trailers full of people; that blew my mind. I went through a phase where I was crying and praying for the families. It was very hard.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Lilly still dreads going to the grocery store and wears a mask and gloves just to put gas in the car.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“It’s just so scary, it really is,” she said. “Now they’re saying there’s another variant coming. I’m better with it, even if it’s still dangerous. But I miss being able to hug somebody when I go into church. I miss everything. I miss everybody.”</p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2228; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">The risks of seclusion and feeling alone</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Loneliness has been rising as a global public health concern in recent years. Former U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy has called it a “growing health epidemic,” and in the U.K., Britain appointed its first m<a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:inister of loneliness" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/01/17/britain-gets-first-ever-minister-loneliness-tackle-isolation/1039703001/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #188fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">inister of loneliness</a> in 2018.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">That same year, the Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness (CESIL) formed in Washington, D.C., to combat what it called an American crisis. With the pandemic, the coalition of consumer groups, community and health organizations stepped up its efforts to raise awareness and push for policy changes that promote interconnectedness.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Advocates say that in addition to exacerbating potentially serious emotional and mental health issues for older adults, pandemic isolation has had other harmful effects, including raising the risk of substance abuse and susceptibility to scam artists who prey on their loneliness.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">More secluded and sedentary lives have also unleashed eating binges and aggravated chronic conditions like arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“They’re not watching their diets and they’re not moving enough,” said Deborah Leibensberger, older-adult services director for Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">Cameron, of the Center for Healthy Aging, said rates of alcohol and prescription drug use are also up among older adults.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“The pandemic has induced stress in all of us, and sadly substances are something people have turned to,” she said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">For those with language barriers, or from marginalized communities who might not seek out services out of fear of discrimination, isolation can be even more pronounced.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">To meet the need, community and faith-based senior organizations pivoted as they ceased their brick-and-mortar offerings: Congregate meals became home deliveries. In-person programming went virtual. Volunteers stopped making home visits and checked in by phone instead.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">In Dallas, Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas now utilizes a grant-funded device that gives clients access to senior-specific TV programming such as chair yoga, concerts, lectures, cooking and travel shows.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Larsseit, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px auto 30px; max-width: 620px;">“That has been widely popular,” Leibensberger said. “It’s like having an older-adult center in your TV.”</p><div class="rmp-module" data-test-locator="tdv2-applet-rmp" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; 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line-height: 115%;">Aging Well, Like Raising a Child,
Takes a Village<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Thousands of Americans reach retirement age
every day. They are Baby Boomers, and they, more than any generation before,
want to remain in their own space throughout their senior years. However, being
completely independent is not always possible. Thankfully, there are many
alternatives to help seniors age not just in place but in community, where they
will have access to support and services for all of their years. Here’s what
you should know courtesy of <a href="http://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Boomers Retirement</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN">What is
Aging in Community?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Aging in community is simply the idea of
staying as self-sufficient as possible while taking advantage of tools to
remain healthy and safe. Dr. Bill Thomas explains that aging in place becomes
more about <a href="https://changingaging.org/journeys/aging-in-community-3/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">utilizing social capital</span></a> and less on financial
stability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN">The
World Around You<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">One of the biggest obstacles for older adults
is transportation. If it is no longer safe for you to drive, you may need to
consider other ways you can get around. While it’s true that Medicare can get
you to the hospital in case of an emergency or near-emergency, it does not
offer services to get you back and forth from regular doctors appointments or
for other errands that you have to run. Medicare Advantage, however, plans
often do provide transportation coverage. So, make a point to review your
current policy and make any changes necessary to ensure that you receive all of
the benefits you may need as you age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Another significant issue is the affordability
of living alone. Consider looking for a 50-plus roommate to help keep costs
down. There are plenty of widows and divorcees who would rather share a home
than to struggle physically and financially. Mother Nature Network contributor
Starre Vartan notes that there are services that can pair you with a <a href="https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/blogs/over-50-and-need-a-roommate-a-new-site-has-you-covered"><span style="color: #1155cc;">like-minded Boomer roomie</span></a>. Before you take
this step, make sure to perform a thorough <a href="https://safety.lovetoknow.com/personal-safety-protection/how-run-background-check-someone"><span style="color: #1155cc;">background check</span></a> on anyone with whom you are
considering sharing your living space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN">Safety
at Home<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Now that you’ve taken care of transportation
and affordability, you will also want to bear in mind the livability of your
property. Being safe at home may require making a few modifications to
compensate for mobility, cognitive, or vision impairments. Added lighting along
the stairs, <a href="https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/how-to-install-grab-bars/9ba683603be9fa5395fab901dbd10401"><span style="color: #1155cc;">grab bars</span></a> in the bathroom, and wider doorways
can all help. Caregiver support site DailyCaring goes into a great deal of
details on how to modify your home room-by-room <a href="https://dailycaring.com/home-modifications-for-seniors-a-room-by-room-guide/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">in this guide</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Carefully consider what safety improvements
you can make outdoors as well. For instance, cracks in your walkway should be
filled, and loose planks in your stairs should be replaced. If you’ve got a
tree or large branch that’s in danger of falling on your home, you’ll want to
get it removed. As you search for “<a href="https://www.angi.com/nearme/tree-removal/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">tree
work near me</span></a>,” it’s always a good idea to read testimonials from
past customers. Sites like Angi offer customer feedback and can inform you of
any tree removal services offering discounts in your area. Always ask for an
estimate and referrals before hiring. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN">The
Village Is Vast<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">More than just relying on your friends,
family, and Medicare amenities, many areas now offer senior-specific networks
known as a village model. A village model is essentially a network of older
adults who look out for one another. Instead of being independent, those within
a village community model are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">interdependent</i>.
They rely on one another for support and often have a single coordinator, who
is a paid employee, that can do things like schedule get-togethers and even
screen contractors. Perhaps the biggest benefit of a village community is that
it can stave off isolation, which is a common issue that contributes to
depression, alcoholism, and even <a href="http://www.todaysgeriatricmedicine.com/news/exclusive_03.shtml"><span style="color: #1155cc;">suicide</span></a> within the senior community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">No matter where you or your aging loved one
chooses to live in their senior years, you should all know that you have
options. While independent and assisted living homes are certainly a valuable
asset for those who need hands-on help, aging in place and within your own
community is an affordable and enjoyable alternative that makes sense for many
seniors. Before you make a decision, do your research and know the pros and
cons of each option. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Image via <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/smiling-man-and-woman-wearing-jackets-1642883/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Pexels</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-51543065324923879782021-09-27T10:32:00.004-07:002021-09-27T10:33:15.508-07:00How to Use Technology to Boost Senior Health<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6eGUNat8wRUxRL98o15mqoOj-axFJrPx7gBYWHYIqh_eXXKO_LpEWIxHWSdpZRjBjDqBuKKwsLo_LZjI5l7mVZorm6YQq5mt8lFSIYdLNTgNheq-ysY2WeXxr44iz0WpfnXO6OH_cw//" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="624" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6eGUNat8wRUxRL98o15mqoOj-axFJrPx7gBYWHYIqh_eXXKO_LpEWIxHWSdpZRjBjDqBuKKwsLo_LZjI5l7mVZorm6YQq5mt8lFSIYdLNTgNheq-ysY2WeXxr44iz0WpfnXO6OH_cw/w400-h256/image.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<h1>How to Use Technology to Boost Senior Health<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div><span class="gD" data-hovercard-id="hsalazar@elders.today" data-hovercard-owner-id="112" email="hsalazar@elders.today" name="Hal Salazar" role="gridcell" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #202124; display: inline; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; outline: none; vertical-align: top;" tabindex="-1" translate="no"><span style="position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><br /></span></span></div><table cellpadding="0" class="cf gJ" role="presentation" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #777777; display: block; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin-top: 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="display: block;"><tr style="display: flex;"><td class="gF gK" style="display: block; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; width: auto;"><span class="gD" data-hovercard-id="hsalazar@elders.today" data-hovercard-owner-id="112" email="hsalazar@elders.today" name="Hal Salazar" role="gridcell" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #202124; display: inline; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; outline: none; vertical-align: top;" tabindex="-1" translate="no"><span style="position: relative; vertical-align: top;">By: Hal Salazar - e</span></span><span style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal;">lders.today</span></td><td class="gF gK" style="display: block; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; width: auto;"><span class="gD" data-hovercard-id="hsalazar@elders.today" data-hovercard-owner-id="112" email="hsalazar@elders.today" name="Hal Salazar" role="gridcell" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #202124; display: inline; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; outline: none; vertical-align: top;" tabindex="-1" translate="no"><span style="position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><br /></span></span></td><td class="gF gK" style="display: block; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; width: auto;"><span class="gD" data-hovercard-id="hsalazar@elders.today" data-hovercard-owner-id="112" email="hsalazar@elders.today" name="Hal Salazar" role="gridcell" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #202124; display: inline; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; outline: none; vertical-align: top;" tabindex="-1" translate="no"><span style="position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">hsalazar@elders.today</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Seniors make up a big part of the population. In fact,
Senior Living notes there are roughly <a href="https://www.seniorliving.org/statistics-about-seniors/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">47 million seniors</span></a> living in the United
States, and that number will soon go up as the baby boomer generation
approaches the defining age of 65. With numbers like that, some experts fear we
could face a serious health crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet
while those statistics may sound daunting, modern technology provides older
adults with advantages previous generations couldn’t enjoy. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Boomers Retirement</span></a> invites you to read on for
some of the many ways today’s seniors can put tech to work for better
well-being.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Smartphone Apps<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps the most convenient way to utilize technology for
senior health is to download helpful apps to your smartphone. Here are a few
favorites:<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.thefabulous.co/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Fabulous</span></a> is a motivational health app that
lets users set goals and gives daily reminders to encourage them to make a
routine out of their most healthy habits. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The <a href="https://www.goodrx.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">GoodRx app</span></a> can help seniors find discounts on
prescription medications, and most pharmacies these days have their own
downloadable app so seniors can order their refills in a matter of seconds. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The <a href="http://redpanicbutton.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Red Panic Button app</span></a> lets users summon anyone
in their emergency contact list simply by pressing one easy button.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While apps are simple to use, they are typically powered by
complex programming. Seniors should know in advance that many feature-rich apps
require more power, memory, and speed to run well than some older smartphones
provide. If it’s time to find a more suitable phone, there are plenty of plans
and <a href="https://www.radiotimes.com/technology/technology-guides/new-phones-2021/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">models</span></a> that are up to the task, and some
service providers allow trade-ins of older models for discounts on new ones.
Remember that buying a new phone may require some <a href="https://www.verizon.com/products/iphone-cases/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">other
purchases</span></a> since your current phone case or charger may not be
compatible with newer smartphone models<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Smart Home Devices<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the simple purpose of making life easier, CNET notes <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/the-best-smart-home-devices-of-2019-amazon-alexa-google-assistant-apple-homekit-smart-speaker/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">smart home devices</span></a> are a great way for seniors
to utilize technology in their homes. Bluetooth speakers equipped with AI
assistants, like the Alexa-enabled Amazon Echo, make it easy for people to
create grocery lists, set alarms and reminders, check the weather, and play
music, just by simply talking to the device. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another suggestion is to hook up a <a href="https://www.lifewire.com/best-smart-hubs-4140443"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Smart Hub</span></a> with smart door locks, light bulbs, and
thermostat, so seniors can control just about everything in the home without
even standing up. The possibilities are nearly endless!<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>GPS<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the biggest technological advances in recent history
is the development of GPS for public use. For people suffering from memory
ailments like Alzheimer's and dementia, <a href="https://www.alzheimers.net/8-8-14-location-devices-dementia/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">GPS services</span></a> can be utilized to locate a
person in the event that they wander off and get lost. GPS sensors can be worn
as bracelets or be added to clothing or shoes, so loved ones can be located
quickly before they can hurt themselves. It’s an unobtrusive way to boost
safety and peace of mind.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Medicare Open Enrollment<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beyond the home environment and daily life, healthcare also
involves routine care from medical professionals. With that in mind, seniors
must remember that the Medicare Open Enrollment period is from October 15
through December 7 each year. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During this time, seniors can change from Original Medicare
to Medicare Advantage or vice versa. They can also switch Medicare Advantage
and Medicare Part D plans. Sometimes seniors find a reduction in their out-of-pocket
expenses by switching plans, and it can mean broader healthcare coverage. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AARP points out the <a href="https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-insurance/info-2019/medicare-advantage-expanded-benefits.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;">benefits</span></a> provided through Medicare Advantage
are more extensive than ever, so many seniors find it’s worth making
comparisons to see if they can come out ahead. Technology steps in to help here
as well, since those who wish to make changes can do so online, and those who
do not want changes do not need to do anything as plans will auto-renew. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Seniors of today have more health-related advantages than
any previous generation. Thanks to technology, seniors can utilize these tips
to improve their daily routine, stay safe and more independent, and check their
Medicare plan. With just a bit of tech at their fingertips, it’s a chance for a
happier and healthier life.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Image courtesy of <a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/laptop-autumn-internet-bench-4551026/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Pixabay</span></a></p>RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-87338979322993816922021-08-10T18:34:00.009-07:002021-08-10T18:34:56.105-07:00Skills to Pursue Online During Your Golden Years<p> <i><span lang="EN">Looking
for guidance as you navigate senior life as a boomer? Then subscribe to </span></i><span lang="EN"><a href="https://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">Boomer Retirement</span></i></a><i> today for tips on tackling senior
conundrums and learning to enjoy this new chapter.</i></span></p><h3 class="iw" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: auto; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 0.75rem; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 20px; margin: inherit; max-width: calc(100% - 8px); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="qu" role="gridcell" style="outline: none;" tabindex="-1" translate="no"><span class="go" style="color: #555555; vertical-align: top;">hsalazar@elders.today </span></span></h3><table cellpadding="0" class="cf gJ" role="presentation" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-collapse: collapse; display: block; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin-top: 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="display: block;"><tr style="display: flex;"><td class="gF gK" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; display: block; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; width: auto;"><span class="gD" data-hovercard-id="hsalazar@elders.today" data-hovercard-owner-id="117" email="hsalazar@elders.today" name="Hal Salazar" role="gridcell" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #202124; display: inline; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; outline: none; vertical-align: top;" tabindex="-1" translate="no"><span style="position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: normal;">By: </span>Hal Salazar </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 19.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Skills to Pursue Online During Your
Golden Years<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlue3_1bb_QO6m4tP6iZEuB6HpxYtVsZyR0qhEkhJrEmmBC9wwr5upkB9KQU_MUra_-Iu4xxLC7emw6t3lwaWKLG9yb-MOqxTuqayZH4rpQtEmWn5sZNNzem01QTwXgky8vwNtxmdM0g//" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="416" data-original-width="624" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlue3_1bb_QO6m4tP6iZEuB6HpxYtVsZyR0qhEkhJrEmmBC9wwr5upkB9KQU_MUra_-Iu4xxLC7emw6t3lwaWKLG9yb-MOqxTuqayZH4rpQtEmWn5sZNNzem01QTwXgky8vwNtxmdM0g/w555-h369/image.png" width="555" /></a> </div><p></p>
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of </span></i><span lang="EN"><a href="https://pixabay.com/en/laptop-office-work-grass-sunny-762548/"><i><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pixabay</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Your golden years can be your years of golden
opportunities! Adding to your skill set
and increasing personal growth is a terrific fountain of youth. Thanks to the internet, there is a wealth of
options available. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">Why you
should be learning<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">One of the best things you can do to keep your
mind sharp as you age is to keep it active.
Just as physical exercise benefits your body, mental exercise benefits
your brain. According to studies cited
by <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/media-spotlight/201607/education-and-the-aging-brain"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Psychology Today</span></a>, choices you make in how you
live can maintain your brain’s resilience and ability to age well. You can actually boost your brain’s health
and <a href="https://www.medicare.org/articles/memory-exercises-for-seniors-that-work/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">slow cognitive aging</span></a> with mental, physical,
and social activity. There is every
indication that not only can you learn new things as you age, it’s actually
good for you! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">Exploring
possibilities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The internet is a deep well of information,
and you are likely to find resources for virtually anything you would enjoy
exploring. Contemplate what topics
interest you, and then start surfing! Choose
something fun and exciting, perhaps something you always wanted to learn about
but haven’t had the chance to. You don’t
need to worry about grades and deadlines, so this is your opportunity to do
anything you would enjoy. Here are some
options that we really like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span lang="EN">Home Projects.</span></b><span lang="EN"> You may find that making certain home improvements
can actually be quite enjoyable, especially if they're a source of
entertainment. For example, if you have
space in your backyard for a fire pit, you may want to consider installing one,
as it can also boost the appearance of your outdoor space. You can <a href="https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/how-to-build-a-fire-pit/9ba683603be9fa5395fab909c7f8239"><span style="color: #1155cc;">create one yourself</span></a> by following online
step-by-step guides, and there are different types of fire pits you can choose
from, such as in-ground and tin. Gather
the necessary materials and get building!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span lang="EN">Art. </span></b><span lang="EN">Being creative offers benefits to your wellness, reducing depression
and helping you feel happier and more productive and increasing social
connections. <a href="https://www.lesley.edu/article/how-creative-expression-can-benefit-older-adults"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Experts note</span></a> the impact is so powerful it
might even reduce many health care and medical needs. Class Central suggests exploring free online
courses at the Museum of Modern Art for information that is relevant, creative,
and inspiring. Selections are rich and
varied, with courses on everything from fashion to photography to understanding
abstract painting. It’s sure to get your
creative juices flowing! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span lang="EN">Music.</span></b><span lang="EN"> If you’ve always loved
music but have never been able to pursue it, now is a better time than ever.
The internet can help you with every part of the process, from buying your
instrument to taking lessons. For example, if you’ve always wanted to learn to
play the trumpet, you can check out online instrument <a href="https://oldtimemusic.com/best-trumpet/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">reviews</span></a>
and pick the best trumpet for you. Then, you can search the web for an
in-person instructor, or take individual or group <a href="http://www.gettheskill.com/creative/music/trumpet/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">online lessons</span></a> on sites like YouTube and
8Notes. The internet makes it possible for you to take up this hobby without
ever having to leave home!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span lang="EN">Nutrition. </span></b><span lang="EN">Looking to learn more about improving your well-being through
food? Monash University offers a free
online course called “<a href="https://www.monash.edu/medicine/scs/nutrition/healthcare-professional-education/food-as-med"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Food as Medicine</span></a>” throughout the year. This terrific program offers information on
how food can boost health, fight chronic disease, and prevent illness. You also learn how to evaluate what is in
food and recognize good choices for your health and well-being. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span lang="EN">Language.</span></b><span lang="EN"> According to <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.24158/full"><span style="color: #1155cc;">some studies</span></a>, no matter how old you are, there
are benefits in learning a new language.
Also, for many adults, learning a new language can be easier than for children,
since you already have a foundation of grammar and structuring words to build
on. You can find free <a href="https://www.fluentu.com/blog/best-online-language-courses/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">language courses</span></a> online that cover a range of
fluent levels. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span lang="EN">Photography. </span></b><span lang="EN">According to <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/learning-new-skill-can-slow-cognitive-aging-201604279502"><span style="color: #1155cc;">some researchers</span></a>, learning digital photography
is particularly valuable, engaging your mind in ways that offer a superior
memory boost over activities like doing word puzzles and other less engaging
mental exercises. Harvard University
offers a free, self-paced program. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">Live
and learn!</span></b><span lang="EN"> Make
your golden years even brighter by adding online learning to your
lifestyle. Broadening your skills and
exercising your brain is healthy and fun.
Decide what you would like to learn, and get surfing!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN"> </span></i></p>RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-5529065122639047662021-04-11T21:08:00.003-07:002021-04-11T21:08:52.522-07:00How Your Golden Years Can Be Your Best Years — Even on a Fixed Income<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrEKkdBoQDvkpLbz4JS4Gc8Yp0dKb9YxRUUaXs5JGjwFLnUDqO6X1u8nEXLOLI-DA8p4YCJ9_9wvW6-yfvEkifJ1htJIYZRcGelo7DJtllKKyi3o3np4Yw95Ou3crbFBxEF0GXAbJuQ/s1600/KarenWeeks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrEKkdBoQDvkpLbz4JS4Gc8Yp0dKb9YxRUUaXs5JGjwFLnUDqO6X1u8nEXLOLI-DA8p4YCJ9_9wvW6-yfvEkifJ1htJIYZRcGelo7DJtllKKyi3o3np4Yw95Ou3crbFBxEF0GXAbJuQ/s320/KarenWeeks.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">How Your Golden Years Can Be Your Best Years — Even on a Fixed Income</span></p><div class="gs" style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; width: 888.243px;"><div class=""><div class="ii gt adO" id=":2ad" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a3s aiL " id=":2ac" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: hidden;"><div dir="ltr"><div><span id="m_-3813739422848892843gmail-docs-internal-guid-f1d2ad09-7fff-2d04-0b42-a83f75944c56"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living on a fixed income is commonly seen as being limited in the lifestyle you live. While it’s true that this can be the case, it doesn’t have to be. By budgeting, eliminating debt, and making a few other moves, you can live a restriction-free, fulfilling life in your golden years. If you want to know more about how to live well on your fixed income, read on for some practical tips from </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1618285139052000&usg=AFQjCNG6XNCxloLJbw8Y3SNE0--Aw9CHyw" href="http://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boomers Retirement</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a budget you can stick to. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first part of thriving on a fixed income is creating a budget. And to make a budget that you can stick to requires you to be realistic about all of your expenses. So, list all of your </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mymoneycoach.ca/blog/what-are-fixed-savings-variable-costs-expenses-and-learn-to-budget-money.html&source=gmail&ust=1618285139052000&usg=AFQjCNEqK89cR3Fex4FlPGdnGg4zbvQHPg" href="https://www.mymoneycoach.ca/blog/what-are-fixed-savings-variable-costs-expenses-and-learn-to-budget-money.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fixed expenses</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, including your mortgage or rent, insurance, groceries, and utilities. Then, subtract those expenses from your total monthly income (from all sources). This will show you how much money you have left for </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seniorfinanceadvisor.com/resources/discretionary-non-discretionary-spend&source=gmail&ust=1618285139052000&usg=AFQjCNEMZKAGJuSUCIU-SOD2TBIcJRPtOQ" href="https://www.seniorfinanceadvisor.com/resources/discretionary-non-discretionary-spend" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">discretionary spending</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the very least, creating a budget should show you where you can make adjustments so that you can make the most of your money, even if that means undergoing a major life change to free up your finances for other things. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knock out debt.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s no getting around it: debt is a killer. If you are straddled with debt, there’s little opportunity for you to spend money on the things that bring you happiness. The first thing you need to do in order to enhance your budget is to work toward eliminating your debt. Pay off your credit cards as soon as possible, and </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/10-reasons-to-avoid-credit-cards-10341618%23:~:text%3D1.,rate%2520your%2520mortgage%2520will%2520be.%26text%3DIf%2520you%2520accumulate%2520credit%2520card,who%2520have%2520good%2520credit%2520ratings.&source=gmail&ust=1618285139052000&usg=AFQjCNEjQidipAaVsTiaw1fbmNeH1A4QGg" href="https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/10-reasons-to-avoid-credit-cards-10341618#:~:text=1.,rate%20your%20mortgage%20will%20be.&text=If%20you%20accumulate%20credit%20card,who%20have%20good%20credit%20ratings." style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">avoid using them</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the future unless you can comfortably make the monthly payments. This will help you avoid the staggering interest rates that come with them. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consider working. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with tackling your debt, think of ways that you can pad your income. If you are able to work, look around town for part-time opportunities. Chances are there are a number of organizations and companies that will value your experience. This could mean picking up shifts at a local coffee shop, restaurant, art museum, or even at a company that specializes in the industry in which you spent your career.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another thing to consider is going freelance. The freelance market is massive, and it includes almost any industry you can think of. For example, if you have customer service experience, you can use your skills as a </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.freelancer.com/community/articles/become-an-online-customer-support-agent&source=gmail&ust=1618285139052000&usg=AFQjCNHe4Rokh4t4sGHFtgjN2aqp77D8Jw" href="https://www.freelancer.com/community/articles/become-an-online-customer-support-agent" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">freelance customer service agent</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. If you are a retired teacher, you can teach remotely in a part-time capacity. Even if your experience is in engineering, accounting, or consulting, you can find work-from-home opportunities through online job boards. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See where you can cut.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, evaluate your budget and figure out where you can cut expenses. For example, if you live in a house that is much too big for your lifestyle, </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://maximizeyourmoney.com/financial-fitness/financial-benefits-downsizing/&source=gmail&ust=1618285139052000&usg=AFQjCNHPMBqtvcPxpZCrViZFfMFmiSy5ug" href="https://maximizeyourmoney.com/financial-fitness/financial-benefits-downsizing/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">downsizing</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> could save you a ton of money on mortgage, insurance, utilities, and taxes. Or, if you’re leasing a car every few years, you could save big by purchasing a late model or used car and driving it until it quits. Also, reassessing how you buy and use groceries can be a major money-saver. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try your hand at starting your own business.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For many retirees, adjusting to life on a fixed income can be difficult, even if you have no trouble sticking to your budget. Sometimes, you just want to enjoy a little more flexibility and a larger financial cushion. You can accomplish this by starting a side hustle right from your home! Many retirees find fulfillment in small business ownership.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perhaps you’re already excited about a particular business idea. Once you’ve decided on a name, you’ll need to go about filing for a </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://startabusiness.org/&source=gmail&ust=1618285139052000&usg=AFQjCNEYGhaVWl9ZlfEE1RJFdg0LNbuxtA" href="https://startabusiness.org/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">business entity</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in your state. After all, you need to make sure that your personal assets are protected, and naturally, you’ll want to find ways to save during tax season. If you’re not quite sure how to approach this process, don’t worry - you can work with an online formation service if you have lots of questions.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just because you’re on a fixed income doesn’t mean your life has to be limited or unrewarding. Draw up a realistic budget, work toward eliminating all your debt, look for employment opportunities, and cut expenses where possible. Implementing these tips can help put you in a better position to flourish in your golden years. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more valuable resources and insight into retirement life, be sure to bookmark </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1618285139052000&usg=AFQjCNG6XNCxloLJbw8Y3SNE0--Aw9CHyw" href="http://boomersretirement.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boomers Retirement</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><span style="color: #888888;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #888888;"><br clear="all" /><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Karen Weeks</span></span><br /></p></div></div></div></span></div><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 2px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; width: 22px;"> <br /><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="hi" style="background: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-bottom-left-radius: 1px; border-bottom-right-radius: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"></div></div></div>RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-89447552934273695362021-03-08T22:55:00.000-08:002021-03-08T22:55:02.185-08:00Heavily-Indebted Boomers Increasingly The Ones Going Bankrupt:<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;">BUSINESS (Canada)</span></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">02/10/2021 16:47 EST</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Heavily-Indebted Boomers Increasingly The Ones Going Bankrupt: Study</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rapidly rising house prices are shielding indebted borrowers from insolvency, but for those without real estate, it’s a different story.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By Daniel Tencer</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiOJvhusiIsEd1-fNNTCfEi0CiZ0Wt5sE3GgWNoNlXpMYq6qamL_8KuipJzcRAezPZnoocxTWCecjElkO51ijJvTVhAcFVzETKgyQl_kUhteOxUOtZ5LinFKrUyvxlhVeI_zqxCpmRA/s630/60244d73260000df12c23b12.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiOJvhusiIsEd1-fNNTCfEi0CiZ0Wt5sE3GgWNoNlXpMYq6qamL_8KuipJzcRAezPZnoocxTWCecjElkO51ijJvTVhAcFVzETKgyQl_kUhteOxUOtZ5LinFKrUyvxlhVeI_zqxCpmRA/s320/60244d73260000df12c23b12.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amid the COVID-19 economic crisis, a lot of attention has focused on younger working Canadians, who have been disproportionately hit by job losses. 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<span lang="EN">There are many circumstances in which moving
into a smaller home makes more sense than continuing to live in a property that
becomes burdensome. Many seniors find themselves in such a predicament due to
physical ailments associated with aging. Despite a desire to continue <a href="https://inclinator.com/5-benefits-aging-in-place/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">aging in place</span></a>, older individuals may <a href="https://agingwithfreedom.com/2019/01/08/at-what-age-should-seniors-downsize/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">need to downsize</span></a> in order to find something
more manageable and affordable. One major decision involved in this transition
is the fate of a senior’s prior property. Depending on the individual’s unique
circumstances, the home can either be sold, rented out, or transferred to a
relative. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It for an Increase in Capital <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN">When purchasing a new property, most people
instinctively assume that <a href="https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/sell-before-buying"><span style="color: #1155cc;">selling</span></a> their prior house is the only viable
option. While there are potential alternatives, this is certainly the most
financially stable option. By selling their old home, seniors free up a
significant amount of capital that can be put towards their new property. Due
to the nature of downsizing, seniors should have some extra income left over to
<a href="https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/senior-citizens-student-loans-student-debt-social-security-garnished-retirement.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;">pay off bills</span></a>, put toward savings, or to take
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<span lang="EN">Seniors who decide to sell their property
should hire a real estate agent to help ensure each step of the process goes
smoothly. Real estate agents will ensure that your asking price is low enough
to generate interest and high enough to leave you with a nice cushion. These
professionals can also help you <a href="https://cooperator.com/article/the-importance-of-home-staging/full"><span style="color: #1155cc;">stage your property</span></a> for listing photos and
open houses. Make sure to hire a local real estate agent for a more focused
approach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">There are some seniors who don’t have to worry
about affording their new property. With no financial need to sell your old
house, you may decide to hold onto it and <a href="https://www.quickenloans.com/blog/converting-home-rental-inside-look-benefits-challenges"><span style="color: #1155cc;">rent it out</span></a> instead. This option will still
provide you with a return on your investment while allowing you to maintain
ownership of the property. You might even end up making more money through this
monthly revenue as opposed to one lump sum from a sale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Be sure to take note of the expenses that come
with maintaining a rental property. For example, you’ll have to <a href="https://www.redfin.com/guides/sell/should-you-sell-or-rent-your-home"><span style="color: #1155cc;">invest in repairs</span></a>, such as structural damage
and HVAC issues. For seniors who don’t have the energy or time to run the
property themselves, there will also be an added expense of hiring a reputable
property manager to look after things. You’ll still be able to come away with a
positive monthly income, but these costs should always be accounted for. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Some older individuals won’t take money into
consideration when deciding what to do with their old property. After decades
of making memories, raising children, and celebrating holidays, it’s common for
seniors to have a sentimental attachment to their house. Instead of selling it
or having strangers live there, you can opt to transfer ownership of the home
to a relative. You can rest assured that the home will be cared for without
having to maintain it yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">If you’re downsizing into a new property
without selling your old one to cover the cost, be sure to determine how much
you can realistically afford to spend. Take a look at your income and savings
account as well as the average price for down payments in the area. Setting a
budget is a great way to ensure you don’t end up with a home that’s <a href="https://www.fool.com/millionacres/real-estate-market/homebuying/6-simple-steps-figure-out-how-much-house-you-can-afford/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">too expensive</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Seniors in the process of downsizing need to
consider whether selling, renting, or giving their home to a family is the best
option given their current financial circumstances and desires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="https://www.caringseniorservice.com/blog/ways-to-help-seniors-avoid-isolation" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Ways to Help Seniors Socialize and Avoid Isolation</a></span><br />
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="https://modernretirement.org/financial-retirement-planning-for-seniors/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Financial Retirement Planning for Seniors</a></span><br />
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/frugal-retirement/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Here Are 12 Simple Ways to Save Money During Retirement</a></span><br />
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="https://www.addictionhelper.com/addiction/elderly/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Addiction in the Elderly</a></span><br />
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<br />RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-22352691814110921952020-02-20T11:07:00.000-08:002020-07-08T19:29:43.491-07:00Valuable Boomers' & Seniors' Resources<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 13.3333px;">Another valuable resource we will put on our Boomers International Web Site page. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.newmouth.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" target="_blank">https://www.newmouth.com</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 13.3333px;">"Effects of Drug Addiction on Oral Health" page here:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.newmouth.com/oral-health/effects/drug-addiction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" target="_blank">https://www.newmouth.com/oral-health/effects/drug-addiction/</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br />
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seniorcare.com/directory/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNHDTme8iCJj3aPcsHJSUouZ_elOtg" href="https://www.seniorcare.com/directory/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Local senior guides</a> with demographics, senior housing, long-term care choices, healthcare quality ratings, and more. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seniorcare.com/directory/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNHDTme8iCJj3aPcsHJSUouZ_elOtg" href="https://www.seniorcare.com/directory/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://www.seniorcare.com/<wbr></wbr>directory/</a>)</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What you need to know about <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNEKoBCKILokmx6YKsXRlgOhG2fd2Q" href="https://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">in-home and home health care</a>. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNEKoBCKILokmx6YKsXRlgOhG2fd2Q" href="https://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>homehealthcareagencies.com</a>)</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/resources/what-is-assisted-living-/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNGy-O9eEFe9mPZo42xadShWQvfcug" href="https://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/resources/what-is-assisted-living-/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">What is assisted living?</a> - everything one should know about assisted living. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/resources/what-is-assisted-living-/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNGy-O9eEFe9mPZo42xadShWQvfcug" href="https://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/resources/what-is-assisted-living-/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>assistedlivingfacilities.org/<wbr></wbr>resources/what-is-assisted-<wbr></wbr>living-/</a>)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seniorcare.com/directory/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNHDTme8iCJj3aPcsHJSUouZ_elOtg" href="https://www.seniorcare.com/directory/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #0096ef; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Local senior guides</a> with demographics, senior housing, long-term care choices, healthcare quality ratings, and more. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seniorcare.com/directory/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNHDTme8iCJj3aPcsHJSUouZ_elOtg" href="https://www.seniorcare.com/directory/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #0096ef; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.seniorcare.com/<wbr></wbr>directory/</a>)</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What you need to know about <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNEKoBCKILokmx6YKsXRlgOhG2fd2Q" href="https://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #0096ef; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">in-home and home health care</a>. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNEKoBCKILokmx6YKsXRlgOhG2fd2Q" href="https://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #0096ef; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>homehealthcareagencies.com</a>)</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/resources/what-is-assisted-living-/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNGy-O9eEFe9mPZo42xadShWQvfcug" href="https://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/resources/what-is-assisted-living-/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #0096ef; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">What is assisted living?</a> - everything one should know about assisted living. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/resources/what-is-assisted-living-/&source=gmail&ust=1582311659333000&usg=AFQjCNGy-O9eEFe9mPZo42xadShWQvfcug" href="https://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/resources/what-is-assisted-living-/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #0096ef; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>assistedlivingfacilities.org/<wbr></wbr>resources/what-is-assisted-<wbr></wbr>living-/</a>)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Carol Marak, the editor at </span><a href="https://www.seniorcare.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Seniorcare.com</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. </span></div>
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RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-60012982724253979732020-01-12T10:22:00.001-08:002020-01-12T10:22:38.896-08:00<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">An email that we received and wanted to share here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is Christine Bell, and I represent the Community Outreach team here at </span><a href="http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=5500216&l=269f8fa3-6bee-4d2d-914b-30eaa98a5a53&r=db8876be-8c9e-417b-a948-be454c54561f" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NewMouth.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 31% of adults between ages 20-44 have untreated dental caries. One out of every two American adults over 30 has periodontal disease. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Mouth was created to keep the public educated about current dental care practices, oral health basics, and how to find the best treatment possible. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our team of medical writers and dentists provide the most up-to-date dental information in every vertical, including general, pediatric, restorative, cosmetic, and orthodontics. We also connect patients with the best dentists in their area depending on individual treatment needs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our goal is to be a one-stop-shop for all of your dental and oral health needs! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-50085031643175429992019-07-29T16:18:00.000-07:002019-07-29T16:18:27.277-07:00Retirement planning is more than just Social Security, an IRA, and a 401K, it’s important to also consider<br />
your healthcare.<br />
<h2>Create an Advance Directive</h2><br />
An advance directive is a document that names someone you trust to make health decisions if you can’t.<br />
It’s basically a durable power of attorney that you can obtain from your attorney, health provider, local<br />
aging agency, or state health department. You’ll want to carry a copy on your person, as well as give a<br />
copy to your attorney (if you have one), healthcare provider, family, and friends.<br />
<h2>Devise a Long Term Care Plan</h2><br />
According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 70% of all persons 65 and over will require<br />
Long Term Care (LTC) at some point. It’s important to note that <a<br />
href="https://www.senior65.com/medicare/article/what-medicare-doesnt-cover1">Medicare doesn’t<br />
cover Long Term Care</a>, therefore devising a long term health plan while you’re healthy will lessen<br />
confusion for you and your loved ones if an emergency or serious illness occurs.<br />
LTC is considered custodial care which includes bathing, housework, caring for a pet, eating, and long<br />
term nursing. The ways to plan for this type of care is to designate a family member or friend for your<br />
custodial care, research Long Term Care facilities in your area, and look into Long Term Care insurance.<br />
LTC insurance can be very expensive and should be purchased as early as possible to be affordable and<br />
meet eligibility requirements.<br />
<h2>Medicare Options for Short-Term Care</h2><br />
There are other health issues that can come up during your retirement other than becoming<br />
incapacitated or needing custodial care. For instance, Skilled Nursing Facility, Inpatient Rehab Facility,<br />
and Home Health Care are there to meet your needs if you have an injury or a stroke or are in need of<br />
short term care. If you have Medicare, Home Health Care is at no cost to you, except for durable<br />
equipment, but if you need Skilled Nursing Facility or Inpatient Rehab Care you could owe quite a bit out<br />
of pocket because deductibles and coinsurance applies.<br />
Medicare’s limitless out of pocket costs can be lessened if you have job-based insurance, VA benefits,<br />
Medicaid, other retirement benefits or <a href="https://www.senior65.com/medicare/article/what-is-<br />
medigap">Medicare Supplement insurance</a> (Medigap) or a <a<br />
href="https://www.senior65.com/medicare/article/what-is-medicare-advantage">Medicare Advantage<br />
plan</a>. As with Long Term Care, you’ll want to purchase Medigap early (when you first enroll in Part<br />
B) to ensure eligibility, as well as keep the cost down.<br />
Along with all of the above, preventive care, like exercising regularly, eating a well-balanced diet,<br />
quitting smoking (Medicare helps with smoking cessation), visiting your doctor regularly, and getting<br />
your vision checked, can help prevent illness, falls, and injury.<br />
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Author Bio<br />
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Amy De Vore helps boomers understand the difference between <a href="https://www.senior65.com/<br />
medicare-insurance">Medicare Advantage and Medigap</a> for Senior65. When she isn’t writing about<br />
healthcare she is an MFA candidate at University of Riverside, California.RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-51772120625934253992018-09-06T21:05:00.002-07:002018-09-06T21:05:55.028-07:00The Empowering Internet Safety Guide for Women<h1 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 35px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
The Empowering Internet Safety Guide for Women</h1>
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Have you ever been harassed in the street? Received a crass message on a dating app? Had a coworker make a comment about your appearance that just didn’t sit right?</div>
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You’re not alone.</div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With the #MeToo movement, it’s easy to log onto Twitter or Facebook and see just how many women are victims of sexual harassment. Whether in person or online, women everywhere have experienced it in one way or another. And with all the new ways the internet has opened avenues of communication, </span><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">online harassment is more prevalent than ever</b><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to a </span><a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/07/11/online-harassment-2017/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">study</a><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by the Pew Research Center, </span><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">most online abuse takes place on social media</b><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Although men are also subject to online harassment – which includes name calling, derision, and physical threats – the study found that online, </span><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">women are more than twice as likely as men to experience sexual harassment</b><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition, </span><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more than half of women ages 18-29 report having been sent sexually explicit images without their consent</b><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This number is only growing, and while 70% of women believe online harassment to be a major problem, not many know how to prevent it.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Women are often targeted simply because they are women. Attacks are often sexualized or misogynistic, and rhetoric tends to focus on their bodies and sexual violence. This is both physically and emotionally damaging, and </span><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">women are often intimidated into silence, preferring to disengage rather than put themselves at risk</b><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, there are ways we can protect ourselves.</span></div>
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<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This guide was written with the intention of empowering women to navigate the internet without fear</b><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. We discuss common occurrences in which women are subject to harassment in their daily lives – on social media, at work, while dating, and more – and give tips and advice on how women can take control.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is important for us to note that </span><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">some of the advice given here encourages anonymity</b><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, rather than risking being targeted. While this may seem to run counter to the idea of encouraging self-expression, we believe that every woman should be empowered to make that choice for herself.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our job is to give you the tools you need to do that.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We hope this guide encourages women everywhere to</span><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> defend and protect themselves, and to stand up to sexual harassment, both on and off the web</b><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The majority of online harassment takes place on social media, which makes sense given how much time most of us spend on these platforms. Broad social networks, often combined with anonymity, leads to a reality in which anything you post, tweet, or share opens you up to potential abuse.</span></div>
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RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-75129489551529301102018-09-06T21:03:00.004-07:002018-09-06T21:03:41.817-07:00What Comes Around.. Again..<span style="background-color: white; color: #00529c; font-family: "Myriad Pro";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">More Aging Boomers Are Embracing PoT</span></span><br />
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THURSDAY, Sept. 6, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Have those weed-loving hippies taken their habit into the new millennium?</div>
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Maybe so: New research shows pot isn't the drug of choice for just the young anymore. More middle-aged folks, and even seniors, are lighting up nowadays, researchers say.</div>
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In fact, federal survey data show that 9 percent of adults aged 50 to 64 and nearly 3 percent of those aged 65 or older have used marijuana within the past year.</div>
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"That's almost 1 out of 10. It's still much lower than a lot of the other age groups, but it's increasing steadily," said senior researcher Joseph Palamar, an associate professor in the department of population health at NYU Langone Health in New York City.</div>
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It's double the percentage of those aged 50 to 64 who reported marijuana use a decade ago (4.5 percent), and more than seven times the percentage of adults aged 65 and older who reported use back then (0.4 percent), the researchers noted.</div>
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Most of these people used marijuana back in the 1960s or 1970s, and are returning to pot use as it's become more socially acceptable, Palamar explained.</div>
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Nearly all marijuana users aged 50 to 64 and more than half those aged 65 or older first tried pot when they were 21 or younger, the study found.</div>
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"To read that they're dipping back into cannabis use in their late adulthood is not very surprising to me," said Dr. Tim Brennan, director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospitals, both in New York City.</div>
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Tough drug laws and the responsibilities of adulthood might have caused these people to stop using marijuana from the 1980s onward, he explained.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Me: Ok, but I dont even remember where, what is the property is at. Have looked at 25 properties in so far, plus I have 5 clients Im working with now. No big deal.</span><br />
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<b>ME to SELF : DUH!!! YOUR CRAIGLIST DID NOT SHOW THE MLS NO!!! LADY!!! PLUS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO EASY JUST TO GIVE ME THE MLS NO.</b><b><br /></b><b>DUH! NO SALE.. BYE..</b></h3>
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<b>* By The Way, Since I am so Internet Savvy, I copied one of your pic and search on the pic on Google and I found your listing online. (</b><b>I should not have to do this)</b></div>
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<b>Took my time to do this, and it was so easy for you to just give me the MLS no.</b></div>
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<br />RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-10118028585119311582017-06-19T18:10:00.001-07:002017-06-19T18:10:12.125-07:00King Of The Hill, Nob Hill.Meanwhile.. <strong style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><em>Up by the Bay:</em> </strong><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">San Francisco’s biennial one-night homeless count shows that since 2015 the western half of the city and significant residential strips of the rest of San Francisco have seen sharp increases in people living on the street — </span><strong style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">even as the citywide population of homeless people fell 0.5%, to 7,499.</strong><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://latimes.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Df089ecc9238c5ee13b8e5f471%26id%3D3e6555f40d%26e%3Da9626f69cd&source=gmail&ust=1498006501624000&usg=AFQjCNHAR1Tli2dxb5zrRtB9EZH6MrNL0A" href="http://latimes.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f089ecc9238c5ee13b8e5f471&id=3e6555f40d&e=a9626f69cd" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #1155cc; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" target="_blank">San Francisco Chronicle</a><br />
<br />RELady-ITprohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04605617532815186761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023254738610696338.post-24425797463746353972017-06-19T18:07:00.001-07:002017-06-19T18:07:30.205-07:00WOW Really? 2016 Latino homelessness shot up 63% in the last year, a staggering number in a county that saw its overall homeless population soar 23%, <span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plus: “Recent figures released by the county show that Latino homelessness shot up 63% in the last year, a staggering number in a county that saw its overall homeless population soar 23%, despite increasing efforts to get people off the street.” Los Angeles Times</span><br />
WOW.... Great job LA.<br />
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Kevin’s new home, where he has lived for four months, is light and bright, located on a tree-lined street in Koreatown, within walking distance of grocery stores.</div>
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Kevin was homeless for 17 years (the last five years in Malibu) before finding permanent housing.</div>
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Visiting with Kevin, 57, in his new one-room apartment with hardwood floors, a bathroom and small kitchen on a tree-lined street in Koreatown, he said he is grateful to have had a real roof over his head since moving in four months ago. </div>
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“I love it,” he said with enthusiasm. “A shower with hot water — thank you! A refrigerator — thank you! Clean socks — thank you! You have no idea how important the simple things are until you lose them.”</div>
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Most of Kevin’s time homeless was spent living in a small tent and cooking with a camp stove. Originally from the Riverside area, he became homeless when his “wife passed away and everything fell apart,” he described. </div>
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“I gave up two houses and stopped caring about anything and became an alcoholic in the street,” he said. Eventually, he found a new girlfriend, but she also passed away. </div>
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He ended up in Malibu with the idea of walking to San Francisco, which didn’t happen. </div>
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In the meantime, MTFH raised enough money to hire two fulltime outreach workers with a van through The People Concern organization based in Santa Monica. The “boots on the ground” team has been actively reaching out to the homeless since last fall. </div>
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Social worker Alex Gittinger became a member of Malibu’s outreach team at the start of this year. </div>
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“I’m most surprised and happy about the willingness of Malibu community to help and give,” he said. “Quite often, I go to the Wednesday night dinners [for the homeless, at Malibu United Methodist Church].”</div>
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A<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">n extra $10 million for homeless youth services has been included in the state budget following requests for increased funding in the field from Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego.</span>He said there’s been some areas of improvement on homelessness — the number of homeless veterans in San Diego County has dropped according to the latest annual count, for example.</h2>
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For Kenneth Salazar, the past came back as a series of scenes in a fractured chronology.</div>
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Life after the Army had been one of dead-end jobs and episodes of sleeping in cars, each coming to an end when the vehicle was impounded.</div>
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“I woke up in a motor vehicle in other people’s driveway wondering, ‘What in the hell am I doing here?’ ” Salazar said.</div>
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Most recently, he was sleeping in a park when an outreach worker got him to go to the Courtyard, a shelter that opened last year in the former Santa Ana bus terminal. There he slept on a mat.</div>
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That turned out to be a steppingstone out of his past. For the first time since his discharge, Salazar, 60, now has a permanent home that cannot be impounded.</div>
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Salazar was one of 15 homeless men — almost all veterans — selected to move into Potter’s Lane, a pioneering housing project built from recycled shipping containers. Salazar will pay $69 a month for his single unit. The balance of the $1,259 monthly rent will be subsidized.</div>
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Potter’s Lane is an example of permanent supportive housing — subsidized apartments with services to provide the support that the chronically homeless need to adjust to life under a roof. It was funded with a combination of low-interest government and private loans and will be supported by subsidies from state and federal programs for veterans and the chronically homeless.</div>
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In Los Angeles, voters have approved $1.2 billion in borrowing to help build 10,000 such units. Following the example at Potter’s Lane, some of those projects are now being designed with shipping containers as the structural element.</div>
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Kurt Carson came to Potter’s Lane from a ledge under the East Katella Avenue bridge over the Santa Ana River. He said he lived there six years and had no complaints, a perspective shaped by his 14 years as a Marine.</div>
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“I’ve been places where 2 million people would kill to get a place under that bridge,” Carson said. “We don’t have a whole lot to gripe about in this country.”</div>
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Kathleen Wolf never dreamed of spending her retirement in Iowa.</div>
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The 68-year-old Californian had a change of heart after filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Ms. Wolf was a millionaire whose fortune, built on buying and selling homes, collapsed in the financial crisis. Her bank balance fell to $15.</div>
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Ms. Wolf said her debt-repayment plan, which eventually left her with about $1,000 a month to live on, made clear she had to leave Monterey, Calif., the central-coast city where she lived. She looked online, as long as 15 hours a day, for places with a low cost of living. In August, she landed in an Iowa town of around 700.</div>
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During her nationwide search, Ms. Wolf found that life in affordable communities brought trade-offs. "These places never gentrified. They have undesirable weather," she said. "They have no yoga classes."</div>
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Yet Ms. Wolf's journey from tony West Coast to rural Midwest has afforded, to her surprise, a measure of contentment, as well as counsel for the nation's 75 million baby boomers. As a group, it is widely known they face a wider savings gap than past generations. What is less well documented is how they have piled up more debt, too.</div>
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People in the US ages 65 to 74 hold more than five times the borrowing obligations Americans their age held two decades ago, according to an analysis of federal data by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy researcher.</div>
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Paying it off won't be easy. Median savings for US households nearest retirement age has dropped 32 per cent in the past decade to $14,500, according to an analysis of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.</div>
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Kathleen Wolf never dreamed of spending her retirement in Iowa.</div>
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Report on L.A. City Homelessness Plan Gives Sobering Picture of Struggle Ahead</h1>
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Nine months after the Los Angeles City Council unanimously adopted a comprehensive plan to end homelessness, the first progress report on the plan, released this week, offered a sobering picture of the long and difficult path ahead.</div>
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Proposals for storage lockers and toilets for street dwellers are stalled, new shelter capacity is being added at a trickle, and the city bureaucracy moving more slowly than some council members had expected.</div>
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“I don’t get that. There’s so much red tape and process in that, ” Councilman Michael Bonin said of an item in the report citing a study of shared housing. “If there are beds available today, I would like us to be moving on it.”... </div>
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Homeless veteran Gordon Frapp Jr., 57, stands next to a Venice canal the city inadvertently marked for homeless people to park. Enforcement of a new law is set to begin Feb. 6 restricting overnight parking for people who live in their vehicles to 10% of city streets. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)</div>
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Los Angeles’ new ordinance on living in cars was billed as a boon to homeless people, making it legal for the first time to park and sleep in half the city’s streets.</div>
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But with the measure set to kick in Feb. 6, a new map suggests the law could trigger a crackdown on some of the city’s 28,000 homeless people. </div>
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The map, which police will use to enforce the measure, shows only 10% of city streets cleared for car lodging. Other posted restrictions on overnight parking and oversized vehicles are not on the maps, but will be enforced.</div>
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One Venice block inadvertently marked safe is actually a canal, accessible by amphibious vehicle only.</div>
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“This isn’t a street. I’m not sure what it is,” city parking enforcement Officer Hector Chun said as he patrolled the neighborhood last week.</div>
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Many jurisdictions have moved against homeless people living in their cars in recent years, with 40% of 187 cities surveyed in 2016 by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty having adopted curbs. L.A.’s difficulty in finding places to put its occupied vehicles underscores its continuing failure to rein in its burgeoning homeless population as it heads into its annual homeless count, which begins Tuesday night.</div>
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Voters in November approved $1.2 billion to build 10,000 affordable and homeless units over the next decade, and the city is planning to build on city-owned lots and in converted nuisance motels. But for a second year, street encampments cling to neighborhoods from Los Feliz to North Hollywood. More than 6,600 vehicles countywide are occupied.</div>
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Earlier this month, Mayor <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics-government/government/eric-garcetti-PEPLT007524-topic.html" id="PEPLT007524" style="color: #4591b8; text-decoration: none;" title="Eric Garcetti">Eric Garcetti</a> scrapped his timetable for housing homeless veterans, saying 1,200 remain outdoors a year after the deadline he had set to bring them in.</div>
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“The city seems to be resting on its laurels passing a homeless housing bond, and meanwhile it has created not so much as another cot,” said retired UCLA law professor Gary Blasi, who has studied and litigated homeless issues for decades.</div>
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Garcetti’s press secretary, George Kivork, said the vehicle dwelling restrictions are a stopgap measure while the city develops a parking program for homeless people. Kivork added that the mayor knows current strategies will not solve the homelessness crisis overnight, but remains “committed to working to solve it as quickly as possible.”<br />CONTINUE READING: </div>
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The number of homeless families in the District has soared by more than 30 percent compared with a year ago, according to a federal estimate released Wednesday.</div>
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For the first time since the annual census began in 2001, homeless children and their parents in the District outnumbered homeless single adults, a population beset by mental illness and disabilities that historically has loomed as the larger and more intractable problem in cities nationwide.</div>
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On <a href="http://www.mwcog.org/uploads/pub-documents/ol5aXVo20160511153522.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;">one day in late January</a>, officials counted 4,667 homeless children and their parents, compared with 3,683 single adults.</div>
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It is impossible to know precisely what is driving the increase. But city officials and advocates for the poor agree that rising costs in one of the country’s hottest real estate markets, combined with a policy of helping families without a permanent place to call home, has produced record numbers at city shelters.</div>
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“We are in the midst of a very serious affordable-housing crisis,” said Kate Coventry, an analyst at the left-leaning D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.</div>
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The District, New York City and Massachusetts are the only major U.S. jurisdictions that guarantee homeless residents a right to shelter. All three are grappling with a substantial increase in the homeless population.</div>
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