Last year, we brought you important news about a study linking healthy arteries and a healthy brain. That study, which was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, is the kind of report that should give us all a greater incentive to eat right, exercise and watch our blood pressure. Researchers have found convincing evidence…
Which is more important – helping out your adult kids with their financial needs, or preparing to meet your own needs in retirement? Plenty of boomer parents are asking themselves that question these days. They’re struggling to bolster their own often-meager retirement savings while offering financial support to adult children who may be having difficulty…
As we’ve been reminding you in our blog and on the radio, Medicare open enrollment is arriving very soon, along with autumn leaves and pumpkin spice lattes. The official opening date is October 15th, but the window that allows you to change or upgrade your coverage without penalty only stays open for a fairly brief…
If you tried to evaluate how well the economy is doing simply by looking at the Dow Jones or the overall employment rate, you might conclude that everyone is happy and secure here in the USA. But if you consider individual households, the picture is considerably less clear, according to financial writer Richard Eisenberg. We…
Here at AgingOptions we always like stories that offer simple solutions to complex problems, and this article which we originally brought to your attention late last year is a good example. Many studies in recent years have shown a clear connection between a healthy body and a healthy brain. But in late 2018 we reported…
Is dying at home overrated? That’s the provocative subtitle that brought a recent New York Times article to our attention. In survey after survey, most Americans say they prefer to die in their own homes, and conventional wisdom says that the familiar environment of home and family is the optimum place to pass away. But…
For the majority of us, aging will bring a host of physical challenges. Even a relatively healthy senior adult can have some difficulty walking, rising from a chair, or reading the small lettering on a sign, especially in busy public places. Unfortunately, some of those public places that should be designed with seniors in mind…
According to the Alzheimer’s Association (www.alz.org) one senior in three passes away with some form of dementia – and those numbers are increasing. So that presents a pretty strong likelihood that an aging person you love will at some point have to deal with the effects of cognitive impairment. Every month there are many articles…
Here at AgingOptions we run across retirement-related articles all the time that are about financial planning and little else. As Rajiv Nagaich has said repeatedly, a retirement plan and a financial plan are simply not the same. Having plenty of money is no guarantee of retirement satisfaction – on the contrary, unless you plan carefully…
Here on the AgingOptions blog, we’ve written before about the overwhelming burden being borne by the nation’s caregivers. Because this burden of caregiving affects so many aspects of our society, we feel this an important story to revisit from time to time. Chances are good that you and your family are impacted by this issue…