Fantastic Retirement Living Choices

Finding a retirement home is easy. We have more options today than ever before. New developments are springing up every day across the nation to meet the wants and needs of a growing retired population that is living longer, healthier, more active, and independent lifestyles. Finding the right retirement home, however, requires a good deal of thought and a little prognostication on your part. The ideal retirement home for you is the one that not only meets your present needs, but one that will accommodate your needs well into the future. Changing homes is stressful at any stage of life and our ability to cope doesn’t improve with age. Assessing your needs today, anticipating how your needs will change as you age, and understanding your available options for retirement living, will help you make the right choice.

And, what wonderful choices you have today! Developers of retirement housing are fiercely competing for your business, which has forced them to become quite innovative in offering more and better retirement living options than ever before. Gone are the days of the one-size-fits-all philosophy of simply building comfortable and secure housing or warehousing for senior citizens in their decline. Developers are, instead, creating complete retirement lifestyles that are tailor-made to cater to the diverse interests and needs of adults at varying levels of activity and independence throughout their retirement years.  Read more…

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Cope With Stress in 12 Easy Steps

 

Stress makes us sick - mentally, physically, and emotionally. Medical researchers have long recognized the direct links between disease and stress. They estimate that as many as 80% of all visits to the doctor are the result of stress-induced illnesses, such as chronic fatigue, anxiety attacks, mood swings, depression, insomnia, ulcers, immune deficiency, chronic pain, migraines, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Recently, Rush Limbaugh (of talk radio fame) reported on the newest study out of the U.K. that says work-related stress substantially increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, too.

The link between stress and ill health is so strong, in fact, that techniques for reducing stress are an integral part of the holistic healing and alternative medicine approaches to wellness. In a quest to find a simple solution to stress, many people have turned to nutritional supplements and herb combinations like Echinacea, Coenzyme Q, pycnogenol, magnesium, Vitamin C, Gingko, and prescription drugs such as Xanax, Zoloft, and Ativan. While many of these are effective in relieving the symptoms of disease caused by stress, they are not effective in relieving stress itself.  Read more…

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How to Maximize Your Retirement Income

Finding real world advice on how to maximize our retirement income isn’t easy. Too much of that advice begins with the false assumption that we have savings or investments that can boost our retirement income simply through better investment strategies. That sort of advice is useless for millions of retirees living from one social security check to the next and whose only real asset may be a mortgage-free home. The reality is, among older workers ages 55 to 64, three out of four live in households with retirement savings of zero to $56,000, according to a 2002 congressional study. For the vast majority of Americans, it seems, maximizing our retirement income depends entirely upon finding ways to minimize our expenses. More and more retirees are finding that the easiest and most immediate way to minimize their expenses is via relocation to areas with a lower cost of living. The advice for this retirement migration could be, “Go South, old man!”

The Dallas Morning News reported that as many as one million U.S. citizens now live in Mexico; drawn there by a superior standard of living on their limited U.S. dollars. They found affordable housing that is less expensive to maintain, high quality and low cost medical and dental care, huge savings on their prescription drugs, a smaller tax burden, and substantial savings on things like health and casualty insurance. Consider how much further your retirement dollar can go where a dental visit is just $15 and your water, electricity, and telephone bills combined will average $75 per month. How about a haircut for $4 or maid services for $5 per day? It’s easy to see Mexico’s major attraction for one million U.S. retirees. Read more…

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John McCain - Safely on 3rd Base, Ready to Run Home

A Commentary

Hey, Yogi, it’s over. It may only be the top of the 9th, but the RINOs are up by fifteen runs and Conservative Republicans have nobody left on the bench. You can stick a fork in this one. It’s done.

I’m just trying to decide if I should stick around for the last couple of innings or head for the exit now so I can beat the traffic out of the parking lot. John McCain, the human equivalent of the goat-cursed Cubs, is going to the World Series of politics. Don’t ask me how that happened. The last I knew, Mitt (there’s a good baseball name) and Huckabee were still in the game. I guess I missed an important play during my last trip to the John.

No big whoop to me, really, although McCain never has shown me much aside from a worrisome tendency to consort with Democrats. Nevertheless, he’ll get my vote in November, if I don’t have something more important to do on election night like washing my hair. I wonder if he knows how many folks like me will give him the nod simply because they can’t vote for Monica Lewinski’s ex-boyfriend’s wife. And, Barack Hussein Obama? As a Cubbie’s fan would say, “Fuggit about it.” Read more…

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Do FDA Regulations Discriminate Against Homosexual Men?

San Jose State University says “yes” - Bans Future Blood Drives

Are blood bank supplies at risk?

Political correctness has run amok - with potentially deadly consequences. The folks at San Jose State University, in the suburbs of San Francisco, have banned further blood drives because of the Food and Drug Administration’s rule against accepting blood donations from men who have had sex with other men. The argument is that the FDA regulation discriminates against homosexual men and, thus, violates the school’s non-discrimination policy.

The school’s ban is meant to protest a rule whose intent is not to discriminate, but to protect public health. This is evidenced by the fact that there are also FDA rules against accepting blood donations from intravenous drug users - another identifiable segment of the population at extraordinary risk of HIV infection. Yet, SJSU officials do not protest that regulation as discriminatory. How could they when I.V. drug use cuts across all age, gender, and racial boundaries? In their rhetoric, the protesters refuse to acknowledge FDA statistics showing that homosexuals’ HIV risk is 60 times greater than heterosexuals’ or that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) counted 6,050 people who developed AIDS from HIV-tainted blood products before the regulations were put in place. Read more…

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