Printer Friendly VersionHave you noticed that your Medicare card carries a familiar number? The ID number on Medicare cards is the same as your Social Security card. Yet, for decades we’ve all been warned to not carry our Social Security number in our wallets. It’s been decades too since writing a check required a Social…
Printer Friendly VersionMultilevel housing, senior housing that takes an independent person or an individual with some assistant living needs and moves with them through a progression of greater and greater physical and/or mental needs, boasts the benefits of never having to move again. What many of those places don’t say is that while you can…
Every day, people leave this firm with documents in hand that leave another person in charge of their health care or finances or transfers title to their property to someone else on their death. While that’s an oversimplification of what occurs in any law office, whether the document is relatively simple or it took hundreds…
According to the 2012 U.S. Census data, approximately one third of U.S. citizens between the ages of 45 and 63 are single, an increase of 50 percent since 1980. Also doubled is the number of adults without children, from 10 percent in 1980 to approximately 19 percent. Dr. Maria Torroella Carney highlighted this data in…
By Karen Jarstad Evergreen Eye Center If you or a loved one is bothered by glare from oncoming car headlights at night (not just the Xenon blue ones – they make everyone squint), you could be having symptoms from the early stages of cataracts. Dr. John Jarstad, board certified ophthalmologist and chief eye surgeon for…
When I was a kid, my aunt worked at the only bank in my hometown. The classy décor included wood paneling, large windows and a quiet usually associated with libraries. In fact, that bank resembled Gringotts Wizarding Bank from Harry Potter fame (though not as large and unfortunately missing the fabulous underground passage containing the…
About 1.3 million Americans receive care each day in nursing homes certified by either Medicare or Medicaid or both according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Low staffing levels, inadequate oversight and documented hazards are just some of the reasons for substandard nursing home care in America. For the frail and vulnerable, those deficiencies can mean…
By Tamara Sevigny of Kiel Mortgage Eric and Christine are both retired, own their home free and clear and have excellent assets and savings. Even still, there was no lending source that they could find who would secure them a line of credit for a remodel. After hearing about a reverse mortgage they gave a Reverse…
Is your 65th birthday on the horizon? Do yourself a favor and do at least one thing for yourself…sign up for Medicare. About 10,000 people a day become eligible for Medicare and if you are like many of them, you’re unclear about just exactly what that means but signing up late for Medicare will cost…
We’ve been taught for generations about the importance of putting good food into our bodies. When you were growing up you probably heard at least one adult say, “you are what you eat.” Unbelievably, the expression didn’t come from some school lunch program. One of the earliest examples occurred in 1826, when French lawyer and…
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