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Health Insurance Options for the Senior Set

staff — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:32:34 +0000

Buying life insurance for elderly can be difficult. As you get older, the companies that supply insurance don’t make any money off of you unless they make the policies too high priced to achieve. Obtaining senior life insurance at a good premium rate can be even more challenging than the commercials lead you to believe. The fact is, anything that increases your risk of death also serves to make you more of a risk to insurance companies and reduces your chances of getting cheap premium rates. However, with solid insurance information, such as that provided by many companies that deal with older people’s concerns, can get you a good plan at a great rate. A willingness to try your chances of obtaining life insurance for the elderly are much better if you are trying get coverage only for long-term care and death expenses. Your lifestyle and health issues can keep you from getting the coverage you need at the best prices. But if you purchase at a good health state and with out any bad health habits you can find that you are able to get great coverage that can help ease the burden and save your checkbook in the long run.

Menopause and Staying Healthy

staff — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:43:36 +0000

Menopause occurs in healthy women around the age of 51 years old. Menopause can occur anytime after the age of 40. Underweight and smoking women may go through menopause earlier, and overweight women may experience menopause later in life. It’s usual for women to experience menopause around the same time her mother did.

Fitness-Minded Vacations for Active Baby Boomers

staff — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:01:34 +0000

What’s your ideal vacation? Lying around the pool, eating, drinking, and taking it easy? Well to some boomers who are all about staying youthful and fit there is another route to go. No longer satisfied with a trip to the beach, active boomers are mixing their vacation time with fitness time.

Stressful Lifestyle and Depression

staff — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:57:39 +0000

Baby boomers are known for their need to “have it all.” They have been largely successful but at what price? The leading cause of disability in the United States as well as worldwide is depression. Depression is most common in baby boomers. Unfortunately, depression is often not diagnosed and left untreated.

Physical Fitness and Aging Baby Boomers

staff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:36:46 +0000

Newsflash! Baby boomers are starting to turn 60 this year! They will also create the largest market ever known for the health and fitness industry. Boomers built their reputation as the youth generation and they are not turning 60 without making bold statements. They want quality of life, to look good and feel good as they age.

Baby Boomers: Weight, Waistlines and Their Heart

staff — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:48:21 +0000

You may have promised yourself that you would never end up looking like your parent; overweight, inactive, and with various health problems. Some of us have already broken that promise. Baby boomers find their lifestyles are just as busy or busier now than when they were raising children. For many of them, they have a dual role of taking care of children and elderly parents. These time constraints mean lunches and dinners are often fast-food choices, and there is little time for any physical activity other than it takes to keep their home or job running smoothly.

The Causes and Risks of Alzheimer’s

staff — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:22:32 +0000

One of the saddest moments in our country’s history came when the announcement was made that former President Ronald Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. It did bring everyone’s attention to this disease that robs a person of a good quality of life, and families lose their loved ones, even if they are still living.

High Blood Pressure and the Baby Boomer Heart

staff — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:40:51 +0000

Controlling your blood pressure can be a key to your heart health. Hypertension or high blood pressure is known as the “silent’ killer. You often can’t see or feel the effects of high blood pressure. That doesn’t mean it is something you can forget about. When blood pressure goes up and stays up for too long, it can narrow the insides of your blood vessels forcing your heart to work even harder than it should. As blood vessels continue to narrow and stiffen because of high blood pressure, those vessels are less elastic and blood clots can stick to the artery walls. This can cause a heart attack or stroke. When your heart is forced to work even harder, it grows weaker because of thickening muscles and a weaker heart can’t adequately pump your blood.

Staying Healthy and Aging Well

staff — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:50:24 +0000

It’s a known fact; millions of baby boomers are aging. Their concern is to age gracefully and still live life to the fullest. This means keeping a healthy body and mind. It is a topic on many people’s mind, and it should be. You should think about your body and mental capacity before you start losing it. Flexibility is reduced and your body tightening can be painful. We may dread getting older, but we will, the alternative to that is dying. Most dread being a burden on their loved ones by getting sick, creating a caregiver situation. What we do now, will increase our chances of living healthy and productive lifestyles when we are well into our senior years.

Treatment of Type I Diabetes in Our Seniors

staff — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:13:44 +0000

Type I diabetes commonly appears in children, teens, and young adults, the effects of the disease will carry through life and cause problems for senior citizens. There is no cure for Type I diabetes, but improvements are being made each year in treatments, blood sugar checking, and insulin delivery. People with Type I diabetes usually don’t have the same life expectancy as someone without the disease, but they are living longer and the risk of complications has also been reduced.