Category: Health and Wellness Issues
by Lucy Burdette If you are a regular follower of TopRetirements, do you take the website’s advice? Maybe you’ll have read the article from November 21 discussing Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s The Five Secrets of Super Agers. Having watched my father’s mental faculties wane under the…
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Published on December 10, 2021
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Category: Active adult communities
December 8, 2021 — This is an updated version of Part 1 of a 2 Part series. Part 1 covers competitors in the West, while Part 2 discusses the 12 Largest Communities in the East. Many people are excited (and sometimes appalled) by The Villages, the giant…
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Published on December 8, 2021
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
We are curious – how happy are you with your decision where to retire? If we get a good response to this we will have a quick survey letting people tell us where they retired and how and what they like about it. Thanks for participating – you will see…
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Published on December 6, 2021
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Category: Home and Garden
December 4, 2021 — There is a free resource in your town in your town you might be missing out on. One that you can actually tap from your home or phone for instant service. It is called your Library! A few years back many people predicted that libraries were…
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Published on December 3, 2021
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
December 1, 2021 — Last week in “Slanted Best Places to Retire List” we reported on the US News list of best places to retire. The creators of that one seemed to have not realized that the Mississippi is not the western border of the U.S. Many of the…
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Published on November 30, 2021
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Category: Estate Planning
November 30, 2021 — It is amazing how many times this question comes up, usually from people who we consider very proactive about their retirements. There are no easy answers to the question, but there are some guidelines. Adding to the mix, if the provision of the Build Back Better…
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Published on November 29, 2021
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
November 26, 2021 — When it comes to lists of Best Places to Retire, one of the most consistent and “best” sources is US News. Their lists usually make sense, and rarely include bizarre choices in North Dakota or other places that don’t take into account…
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Published on November 26, 2021
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
November 2021 — In Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s book, “Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age“, the neurosurgeon states early on that “you can make your brain better, faster, fitter, and yes, sharper”. That is good news – we are not stuck with an aging…
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Published on November 20, 2021
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Category: Medicare
November 18, 2021 — Who knows if it will ever pass a fractured congress, or even what would be in such a bill if it were ever signed into law. But as the Build Back Better bill stands today, there is a lot for older Americans to like. The…
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Published on November 18, 2021
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
November 14, 2021 — Gasoline and groceries aren’t the only items seeing hefty prices increases coming out of the pandemic. Medicare just announced that Part B premiums will increase 14.5% next year, resulting in the heftiest dollar increase ever, $21.60/month for the majority of people receiving the benefit. The base…
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Published on November 14, 2021
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