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Ask Rusty - Ex-spouse benefits - When you don't get
Ask Rusty - WEP - Substantial Earnings Test
Ask Rusty - Child Benefits Stopped at 18
Ask Rusty - Can I Re-marry, or not?
Ask Rusty - Raiding the Social Security Trust Fund
Aging Eyes: 3 Ways Seniors Can Protect Their Vision
Ask Rusty - Divorced Multiple Times
Growing old on the streets is not easy
Ask Rusty - High earners and the Family Maximum
The Risk of Aging
Why Do Some Old People Get Cranky?
Ask Rusty - SSDI and the Ticket to Work Program
Good news: A 2018 increase for Social Security beneficiaries
Ask Rusty - Maximizing Widow's Benefits
Ask Rusty - Estimated vs Actual Benefits
Homelessness among senior citizens is a form of "elder abuse"
There's a Deficit of Knowledge About Social Security
Ask Rusty - Should my wife wait until age 66 to claim benefits?
It's Older Americans Month
Heat Waves Can Kill Seniors who Don't Take Precautions
It's Medicare Open Enrollment Season. Here's What You Need to Know
Elder Abuse is a Growing Concern
Could You Be Missing Out On Senior Discounts? Here Are A Few Things To Know
A Silly Story: The Benefits of Childis Antics for Seniors
End The Tax on Aging
Nursing Homes Set Goal To Get 75% Of Staff Vaccinated By June 30
Malls Converted to Senior Housing
5 Tips to Protect Seniors from Financial Scams Right Now
Taking a Nap Has Health Benefits for Seniors
Do You Need Social Security?
Forgetful? It's Most Likely the Rigors of Growing Old
Will Senior Housing Evolve Into intergenrational Housing?
Beware the Plastic Clamshell
Feeling Down In The Dumps? Take Stock of the Optimism In You. You'll Live Longer
Social Security Expands Compassionate Allowances Program for People with Severe Disabilities
More and More Seniors are Using Online Dating as a Way to Offset the Loneliness of the Pandemic
The Secret of Healthy Aging is Not as Big a Secret as You Might Think
The Sandwich Generation: Caring For Their Elders and Youngsters At The Same Time
Have Compassion for Lonely Elders — There are a Lot of Them Out There and They Need Your Help
Long Term Care Crisis Impacts Elders Who Need Special Care
The Holiday Season Brings Out the Elder Fraud Scammer
The Graying of America
The Holiday Season is Not so "Jolly" for Elders Living Alone; Don't Let Them Fall Into Depression
Aging Has Got Easier for America's Seniors but COVID May Reinforce Ageist Notions
You Can Have a Porterhouse Steak As Long As It's Rare — A Rare Treat to be Enjoyed On Occasion
Inflammaging: Aging is Mostly About Inflammatory Health Issues—Enogh to Make Againg, Itself, a Disease
Could It Be that "Senior Moments" are the Result of Too Much Knowledge Rattling Around in Your Brain?
Now Is the Time for a Little Emotional Wellness and Self-Compassion
Senior Use of Smart Phones, Computers and iPads is On the Rise
Attention Seniors! Medicare Isn't Free
Study Shows Washington State is Where Older Citizens are "Living Better Lives"
Biden Inflation Hits Homeless Elders Hard
More Seniors are Using Computers and the Internet than Ever Before
Do You Need an Organized Exercise Regimen or Do Your Daily Chores Provide the Workout You Need?
15 Million-Plus Senior Citizens Suffer from 'Food Insecurity,' the Potentially Deadly Side-Effect of Spiraling Inflation
Retirees are Going Back to Work — Some to Supplement Income, Others to Feel Productive
4 Tips to Confidently Care for Gray Hair
How Technology Can Help You Age in Place
A Majority of Seniors are Homebodies at Heart
7 Tips for Finding a Medicare Plan That Works for You
Pay Into Social Security Now for Later
Organizations Join Forces to Protect Senior Voters
Shining Light on Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes
Annual Wellness Exam is Key to a Healthy Year for Older Adults
It's Not About Growing Old; It's About How You Grow Old
Aging Workers are In Demand; They are Reliable, Mature and Professional
What Older Adults Should Know After a Doctor’s Visit
For Homecare Equipment Providers, Every Dollar Counts
It’s Time to Care About Long-Term Care
"Vulnerable adults, most often seniors" are targets for scammers, says guardian Rick Black
Romance Scams on the Rise and Elderly are Particularly Vulnerable
Why Everyone Over 50 Should be Training for the Senior Games
How To Find Affordable Senior Housing
Review of the Changing Protein Requirements for Seniors
Exercise Walking For Seniors: Preventing Foot Problems
Arizona Assisted Living Homes -- The Alternative to High Priced Senior Care
10 Tips to Keep a Family Caregiver from Losing Their Mind
When Assistance with Long Term Care Becomes Necessary
Caregiving Across The Miles-Tips for Successful Long Distance Caregiving
Scaling Down (Almost) Painlessly
If Using The Stairs Has Become A Daily Struggle, A Stair lift Could Change Your Life
Assisted Living: Tips on How to Choose a Facility
Stair Lift Buying Guide
Stair Lifts - Straight and Curved Rails
5 Myths You Should Know Before Choosing Elder Care
Solitary Confinement -- for Life
Prevent or Delay Alzheimers Disease
Short Trips Can Stimulate Alzheimers Patients
Scaling Down (almost) Painlessly
Nursing Home Staffing Levels: How Much Is Enough?
Respiratory Help Is Available For Seniors With COPD
When the Box is Empty
Angels Are Reaching Out to the Elderly
New Hope for Alzheimers Treatment
Hinged Rail Stair Lifts
Whos Gonna Take Care of You When Youre Old?
Baby Boomers: Will They Be Able to Afford Their Parents?
Senior Living: 5 Ways to Help Reduce the Risk of Falling
What Colour was Your Great-grandmothers Hair?
Skilled Nursing Homes - What Are They?
Arizona Assisted Living: Resident Rights
Arizona Senior Housing: Care Options for Seniors Who Can No Longer Live Alone
Advocate For Senior Citizens - Protecting Against Abuse and Fraud
What About Tennesse Dept. of Human Services Abuse of the Elderly and Their Families?
Marketing, Selling, and Serving the Older Adult, Senior Citizens, Family Caregivers
Stairlifts - Take the Struggle Out of Climbing the Stairs
Helping Caregivers Get Comfortable Asking For Help
Caring for Aging Relatives
Long Term-Care; 70 Million Americans Will Be Over 65 by 2003
Honey, Where Are The Car Keys?
Long Term In-home Care Options
Paying For Elder Care Just Got Easier
Local Businesses Serving Seniors Prove Commitment to Quality Care
The Right Wheelchair Accessories Will Ease Your Life and Your Journeys on Wheels
As the Baby Boomers Age
The Best Investment You Can Make Right Now: Long Term Care Insurance
The Golden Years
Retiring Abroad and Leaving the Grey Skies of the UK
Using The Proper Wheelchair Will Make Your Everyday Life Easier
Second Hand Stair Lifts
Feeling Lonely?
Mom Wont Participate!
The Dryer Ate Your Underwear!
Just Give Them a Lot of Love and You'll be Fine
What You Need to Know About Helping Senior Citizens
Who Wants to End Up in a Nursing Home? NO ONE!
Assisted Living Facilities - What Are They?
Board and Care Homes - What Are They?
What Most Long Term Care Professionals Don't Know
Strategies on Paying for Nursing Home Care and Medicaid
The Truth About Christmas
Compare Nursing Homes
Senior Care for Alzheimer's
Prepare to Make Long-term Care Choices
Introducing the Best Available Long Term Care Policy Guarantee
Alzheimers Care Giving While Maintaining Your Own Health

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It's Older Americans Month
America's senior citizens are growing older by the day but they have never felt so young as they do these days, says advocate for the elderly, Dan Weber. Dan is president of the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC] and points out that seniors are living longer and in better physical and mental condition than ever before.
Stair Lift Buying Guide
There is no doubt that having a stair lift in your home can dramatically improve your quality of life. If you are starting to find that climbing the stairs is becoming a hazardous experience, or just hard work, then a stair lift could be the answer.
The Best Investment You Can Make Right Now: Long Term Care Insurance
Don't think you need it? Consider this: a full 50% of Americans over the age of 50 will need long term care at some point in their lives. The average cost of nursing facility care (or home health care assistance) is $61,000 per year, and the average stay in a long term care facility is 2½ years.
Hinged Rail Stair Lifts
If a door at the top or the bottom of the stairs may be blocked by the rail of the stairlift, there are a number of models designed to overcome this problem. Some manufacturers are able to produce a rail with reduced overhang upstairs, so the lift will not protrude as far into the hallway.
Prevent or Delay Alzheimers Disease
Argh! Where are my glasses? I put them down . .
Skilled Nursing Homes - What Are They?
A skilled nursing home is a medical facility providing services similar to a hospital. The homes are staffed with licensed nurses, shared rooms, hospital beds, regular scheduled doctor rounds, meals and housekeeping.
Ask Rusty - High earners and the Family Maximum
Dear Rusty: My question is this: If both spouses are high earners with significant Social Security contributions in their own right, delaying their benefits to get a bigger Social Security amount could mean they will exceed the maximum "family" payment.
Honey, Where Are The Car Keys?
Q: My mother is always losing, hiding and hoarding things, I am losing my mind! What can I do to get her to stop?A: This is a great question and I have a lot of material to work with.My grand mother had made me the most beautiful doilies.
Respiratory Help Is Available For Seniors With COPD
As HMOs Continue to Drop Coverage for Seniors - Now Over 500,000 Victims - Those Needing Expensive Respiratory Medication, Support and Homecare Services are the Hardest HitOne Patient Advocate, Geriatric Services of America, is Providing Relief to Victimized Patients Through a Unique, Often No-Cost ProgramMore than 536,000 US senior citizens are scrambling to find new doctors or new coverage because their health plans terminated their Medicare managed-care services, according to a Nonrenewal Report issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the year 2002. Among the hardest hit are seniors in California (84,000), Florida (59,000), Pennsylvania (55,000), New Jersey (53,000), Texas (46,000), and Michigan (31,000), who will be losing coverage in the coming year.
Scaling Down (almost) Painlessly
Moving to a smaller house or apartment in a retirement community almost always involves a certain degree of trauma, both for the elder who's moving and for family members. However, by planning ahead you can reduce the discomfort involved and turn what might well become a nightmare into a pleasant event.
The Dryer Ate Your Underwear!
Q: My mom is in the early stages of dementia and she is also incontinent we have tried to get her to stop wearing her underpants and have her start wearing pull-up diapers, she throws the Depends out the door and puts her underpants on. Of coarse we have a lot of laundry! How should I handle this?A: This one should be fairly easy to solve.
Marketing, Selling, and Serving the Older Adult, Senior Citizens, Family Caregivers
Are your clients pleased by the fine quality service that you provide? Validating your clients' endorsement of you through Certification as a Senior Approved Service will increase your client base. Senior Approved Certification leads a family towards a service like yours side stepping the possibility of connecting with a less than desirable service.
How To Find Affordable Senior Housing
A few years ago Miranda M. became a widow.
Senior Care for Alzheimer's
As a person ages, a certain amount of memory loss and confusion is quite normal. Personally, I've been known to invoke the cliché, "The older I get, the better I was!" Unfortunately, Alzheimer's disease represents a more serious loss of mental sharpness and calls for special care for seniors.
Long Term In-home Care Options
Are you worried that you may lose all your life's earnings and nest egg due to the rising costs of in-home long term care? As you get older do you have the necessary finances to protect yourself from going broke while slightly incapacitated? Many seniors are worried about are worried about the costs of long-term health care.Are you worried that if something happens to you, that you may run out of money and burn thru their reserves and all your nest egg.
Senior Living: 5 Ways to Help Reduce the Risk of Falling
Every year we hear stories of seniors falling, ending up in hospitals and never fully recovering. Unfortunately, these falls often result in death.
Review of the Changing Protein Requirements for Seniors
Youth, it is said, is wasted on the young. Too busy figuring life they hardly take the time to enjoy it.
What About Tennesse Dept. of Human Services Abuse of the Elderly and Their Families?
PART I: Physical Abuse of the Elderly vs. Tennessee DHS Abuse of FamiliesDuring the week of October 26, 2003, newspapers across the state of Tennessee published an Associated Press story that featured the glaring news headline, "Reports of neglect and abuse of senior citizens up 40% in six years.
Stairlifts - Take the Struggle Out of Climbing the Stairs
Buying a stairlift can have huge benefits for your quality of life, giving you back some freedom and independence. Stairlifts can be adapted to your individual needs, so no matter what your requirements are, there'll be one to suit you.
Paying For Elder Care Just Got Easier
It's not a surprise that thousands of families across the nation are facing the challlenges of an aging population. The "sandwich" generation, those who are caring for their children as well as their parents, have been feeling the financial pinch of caring for loved ones.
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As the Baby Boomers Age
Many employees today are calling in sick - not to care for themselves or their children, but to care for their aging parents. Baby boomers are rapidly moving into the role of caregivers for their parents, but with a few extra challenges due to the changing face of our workforce.
Stairlifts - Take the Struggle Out of Climbing the Stairs
Buying a stairlift can have huge benefits for your quality of life, giving you back some freedom and independence. Stairlifts can be adapted to your individual needs, so no matter what your requirements are, there'll be one to suit you.
The Risk of Aging
Reports of physical and financial abuse of the elderly are on the rise throughout the country. It's a crime that, experts say, is largely underreported. But, a new light needs to be shed on this dirty little secret, says Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC].
Heat Waves Can Kill Seniors who Don't Take Precautions
What could be better than a sunny summer day, with gentle breezes keeping temperatures smack-dab in the middle of your comfort zone? But, the number of heat waves we can expect in much of the U.S. this summer is anticipated to be greater than usual, as projected by several authoritative sources.
Scaling Down (Almost) Painlessly
Moving to a smaller house or apartment in a retirement community almost always involves a certain degree of trauma, both for the elder who's moving and for family members. However, by planning ahead you can reduce the discomfort involved and turn what might well become a nightmare into a pleasant event.
Board and Care Homes - What Are They?
Board and Care homes (also known as RCFE's - Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly) are residential private homes that have been licensed by the Department of Social Services to provide services to seniors. Most accept no more than six residents, but offer a cozy, home-like setting for frail seniors.
Solitary Confinement -- for Life
Sixty-five year old Arthur Jones served a self-imposed life sentence - in his own home.Arthur lived in a high crime neighborhood, so he built iron cages around his outside doors and installed bars on all the windows.
Retiring Abroad and Leaving the Grey Skies of the UK
Retiring abroad needs careful planning. Not all countries have the same entitlement to benefits as the UK and your tax liability may be affected.
Assisted Living Facilities - What Are They?
Assisted Living facilities are generally for person's 60 years of age and older. Typical candidates need assistance with "Activities of Daily Living" (ADLs), but wish to live as independently as possible.
When Assistance with Long Term Care Becomes Necessary
According to the Administration on Aging, it is estimated by 2030, the older population will more than double to approximately 71.5 million.
What Colour was Your Great-grandmothers Hair?
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New Hope for Alzheimers Treatment
There is now widespread agreement among research scientists and medical professionals that Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a problem quickly growing to vast proportions. As the life expectancy of Americans continues to rise, increasing the percentage of the population over 65 years of age, so does the number of Alzheimer's cases.
What Most Long Term Care Professionals Don't Know
Medicare recognizes this need and, therefore reimburses your residents to receive advanced behavioral health services? making them free to your facility!Psychologists provide a wide variety of valuable and testedclinical services that can provide a big shot in the arm to yournursing home care. For example:1.
Whos Gonna Take Care of You When Youre Old?
I finally went to the doctor this morning for my bad cold. My appointment was for 9:30 am and yet I didn't get home until after 1:00 pm.
Long Term-Care; 70 Million Americans Will Be Over 65 by 2003
We will all grow old; this is a given. We will all have health issues as we grow older, this also is a given.
What You Need to Know About Helping Senior Citizens
IntroductionThe baby boomers is the population which haven taken birth after second world war till 1965 when there was a tremendous increase in birth rate due to the social and economic development in the USA. Now this population is going into the old age and thus bringing a burden to the nation as the country has to take care of not only the food and shelter but also the medical care.
Mom Wont Participate!
Q: Six months ago we placed my mother in an assisted living facility. She gets along fairly well, but we thought she would get involved with all of the activities.
Why Everyone Over 50 Should be Training for the Senior Games
by Phil Campbell, M.S.
Long Term In-home Care Options
Are you worried that you may lose all your life's earnings and nest egg due to the rising costs of in-home long term care? As you get older do you have the necessary finances to protect yourself from going broke while slightly incapacitated? Many seniors are worried about are worried about the costs of long-term health care.Are you worried that if something happens to you, that you may run out of money and burn thru their reserves and all your nest egg.
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