Tag: Health & Wellness

Over 50? Here’s How to Show You’ve Still Got What it Takes

Over 50? Here’s How to Show You’ve Still Got What it Takes

| May 31, 2013 | 8 Comments

It’s fair to say, it’s harder than it used to be for some of us baby boomers to stay healthy. Jim Kauffman at the national YMCA says, Are you over 50? Here’s How to Show You’ve Still Got It!

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Health Care Survey: Best Havens for Quality Care Overseas

Health Care Survey: Best Havens for Quality Care Overseas

| May 5, 2013 | 3 Comments

In the continuing debate about healthcare in America, one thing gets lost: there is healthcare in other parts of the world that is accessible to Americans as you’ll see in this survey by InternationalLiving.com.

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Can Being Overweight Hurt Your Marriage?

Can Being Overweight Hurt Your Marriage?

| February 19, 2013 | 1 Comment

A recent study has found that marriages where one spouse is thin and the other overweight have more conflicts. If that’s you, read on.

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Immunizations: One Way For Boomers to Stay Healthy

Immunizations: One Way For Boomers to Stay Healthy

| January 20, 2013 | 1 Comment

While most Americans know they need an annual flu shot, not everyone is aware of all the other viruses easily preventable by immunization. Here are some answers.

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African Americans Need To Be Counted In Alzheimer’s Disease Research

African Americans Need To Be Counted In Alzheimer’s Disease Research

| January 19, 2013 | 1 Comment

Doctors seeking new ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease could use help, perhaps from you, according to Dr. Karen Bell of Columbia University.

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Tips for baby boomers to help keep aging parents healthy

Tips for baby boomers to help keep aging parents healthy

| November 13, 2012 | 1 Comment

Staying healthy can be so easy. Our kids don’t even work at it; we do and absent other challenges, we usually succeed. For our parents though? That’s another story. Kate Forgach is a Baby Boomer consumer specialist and in that role, has some advice about keeping our own parents’ refrigerators well and properly stocked.

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Tips for baby boomers to help keep aging parents healthy

Tips for baby boomers to help keep aging parents healthy

| May 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

Staying healthy can be so easy. Our kids don’t even work at it; we do and absent other challenges, we usually succeed. For our parents though? That’s another story. Kate Forgach is a Baby Boomer consumer specialist and in that role, has some advice about keeping our own parents’ refrigerators well and properly stocked.

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How Much Support to Give Aging Parents

How Much Support to Give Aging Parents

| June 19, 2011 | 13 Comments

How much support do we baby boomers give our aging parents? Wendy Reichental looks back and thinks, not enough … especially when (excuse the pun) the support her late mother needed was about shoes!

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