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When Should You Enroll In Medicare?
Failure to enroll in Medicare on time can cost you thousands in extra Medicare premium penalties during the course of your retirement. Medicare’s exhausting perplexity raises the chance of costly deadline errors for seni ...
When Age Is Affecting Your Ability To Drive
Fatal crash rates rise sharply after a driver reaches age 70. Understanding how aging is affecting your driving can help you make adjustments that allow you to continue to drive more safely, longer. Keep an eye out for t ...
The Three Fastest Growing Senior Costs
What You Can Do To Cut Them Over the past decade three common senior costs have grown far faster than all the rest. Here are the top three and a few strategies for reining them in: 1. Medicare Part B Premiums - Gro ...
Is It Safe To Refinance A Mortgage Once Retired?
Q: Is it safe to shop for senior housing or to refinance a mortgage for overdue renovations of an older home, or should we focus of paying off the mortgage of an existing home? I’m still working and I’ll turn 62 this yea ...
Low Cost Protein Super Foods
By Mary Johnson Eating well on a budget doesn’t mean giving up good food. You can cut your meat costs while boosting nutrition by using these protein-packed foods. Buckwheat: A must-try food for diabetics, and anyo ...
The Three Biggest Social Security & Medicare Mistakes
(And what you can do to avoid them) Eighty-six percent of workers in their 60s say they plan to work past age 65 according to the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. But for seniors who keep working, learning ...
Four Secrets to Maximizing Your Social Security Benefit
The majority of seniors depend on Social Security for at least half of their income. Given its importance to your budget, it’s critical to get the biggest benefit that you’re entitled to. Most seniors don’t know how, and ...
Best Ways To Save: Watch Those Hospital “Observation Stays”
Big bills for uncovered charges are surprising some seniors after some hospital stays that aren’t considered inpatient services by Medicare. The problem occurs when the hospital classifies your stay as “observation” whic ...
Your Health: New Clues As To Why Some Older People May Be Losing Their Memory
New research links “silent strokes,” or small spots of dead brain cells, found in about one out of four older adults, to memory loss in the elderly. The study is published in the January 3, 2012, print issue of Neurology ...
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