December 2006 - Posts
Palo Alto Daily News, December 29th, 2006
On a daily basis, four or five seniors walk into the Palo Alto Walgreens with questions about Medicare Part D. "Most
don't understand it all," pharmacist Shazia Sana said of the federal
health insurance program's
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Wall Street Journal, December 27th, 2006A reverse mortgage could help you pay for retirement - or it could cost you and
your heirs a lot of money.The housing boom of recent years has fueled
record growth in these products, which give homeowners an
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Star-Telegram.com, December 14th, 2006We all depend, sooner or later, on breakthrough drugs, the product
of hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in research and
development. They are powerful weapons against disease.
But sometimes, after investing
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The New York Times, December 12th, 2006Marvin Margolis, an 80-year-old Manhattan financial consultant, is looking for investors willing to bet on when he will die.Two years ago, Mr. Margolis bought a large life insurance policy.
Now, he’s considering
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WFAA.com, December 11th, 2006Jan Gaynor and
Barbara Cohn have decided to spend their retirement years in this city
of art and culture, not just because it's steeped in 400 years of
history, but also because it offers something new. The
sixtysomething
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Los Angeles Times, December 10th, 2006Jim Elliott, 55, spends his days clambering onto the tops of houses,
taking measurements for the wooden trusses his company sells to support
roofs through long, snowy winters.
Not long ago, Elliott thought his
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SpokesmanReview.com, December 10th, 2006Annuities are big business in Washington.Insurance companies
sold annuity contracts worth about $3.6 billion in 2004, according the
most recent available government statistics and private research.High
numbers
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Examiner.com, December 9th, 2006For local retiree Tom Cosgrove, the real work has just begun.Cosgrove
volunteers with the Ignatian Volunteer Corps of Baltimore, an
organization that provides volunteer work for men and women over age 50.Cosgrove,
who
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Best Syndication, December 8th, 2006With a vision to provide a universal health plan, such as Medicare,
the United States does not truly have a national health care plan. Even
though universal health care, another name for national health care
plans,
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SeniorJournal.com, December 7th, 2006Sleep is essential to
well-being, quality of life and overall health, especially among the
older population according to the new report The Role of Sleep In
Healthy Aging, published by the International
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Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, December 6th, 2006Though hugely expensive for American taxpayers, most seniors who
have joined the Medicare prescription drug benefit say they're
satisfied with it. Still, the Democrats who are about to take over the
U.S.
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Sacramento Bee, December 6th, 2006The Medicare prescription drug benefit was designed only
tangentially to provide medicine to the elderly. Its distinction is
that it stands as a totem to the Republican Party's uncontrollable urge
to use tax money
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Yahoo Hotjobs, December 5th, 2006Unlike their parents or grandparents, many baby boomers aren't interested in
retiring from work in their 50s and 60s. As a result, companies are making
strategic decisions to support an aging workforce by providing
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CNN Money, December 4th, 2006When Medicare began offering Part D prescription drug coverage for the first
time this year, seniors had six months to sort through the chaos - and it was
chaos - to pick a plan.
This time you'll have just six weeks
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The New York Times, December 2nd, 2006As you snatch a couple more Christmas cookies or down another eggnog, you might
be thinking about what those extra calories will do to your health.But have you considered what they will do to your wealth? The sugar
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Seacoast Online, December 4th, 2006Despite the fact that we have enjoyed a long period of relatively low
inflation, the cost of living continues to rise. A growing number of seniors
living on limited or fixed incomes now find themselves house rich
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Kare 11 Minneapolis, December 4th, 2006You've saved most of your life so you can kick back in your golden years. Now
what?If there's one challenge as daunting as all those years of
squirreling money away for retirement, it's this: making sure you
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PBS, December 1st, 2006"A powerful and intimate journey into the uncharted territory of Americans living
longer than ever -- and what it means for them, their loved ones and our society."For the past several years, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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