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Stay away from putting financial burdens on your kids

By |November 7, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |

Long Term Care insurance can be overwhelming if you are not prepared. The longer we live the more money we end up needing with retirement funds, healthcare expenses, and any type of care. A important thing to remember is to not let your kids or even grandchildren become burdened by the finances and costs.

Here are some steps to take to make sure you do not put your kids in a financial bind by HuffPost:

  1. Do not use your retirement funds to help out your kids or grandchildren-2.8 million borrowers over the[…]
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  • Dementia

7 interesting things that could lead to Dementia

By |November 6, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |

Dementia is commonly associated with memory loss diseases. There are many things that lead to Dementia such as high blood pressure or trauma to the brain. You also experience memory loss and can have other symptoms like the inability to focus or pay attention to someone, your judgement and ability to problem solve is slower. Some people even suffer with language or have issues with communicating with others.

Dr. Luqman Lawal explains Dementia this way, “Dementia occurs when once-healthy neurons in the brain stop working, which results in a loss of cognitive functioning.[…]

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Talking to your parents about handing over their keys

By |November 5, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |

Seniors today are outliving the considerably safe age to drive around by almost 10 years. If you are over the age of 40 and have a parent who is still driving around it could be soon that you will have to talk with them about handing over the keys.

According to AAA, elderly drivers are actually safe drivers. They avoid risks such as driving in the dark, drinking and driving, bad weather, or heavy traffic times. They tend to always wear their seat belts and drive slower than others. However, AAA says that[…]

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Can Cell phones Lead to Heart Tumors?

By |November 2, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

The U.S Food and Drug Administration recently found that the radiation from cell phones lead to male rats developing heart tumors. The rats developed cancerous heart, brain and adrenal gland cancerous tumors from these mobile phones.

The study tested radio frequency radiation (RFR) emissions on mobile devices. They wanted to find out the potential health risks of long term exposure of cell phone radiation that is inside these mobile devices. Rats were exposed to cellular service that were similar to 2G or 3G services. The study noted:

“We studied the effects of nearly[…]

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  • Loneliness

The Link Between Loneliness and Aging

By |November 1, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |

Loneliness is often associated with conditions such as; Alzheimer’s, Cardiovascular disease, depression, insomnia, cerebrovascular disease and hypertension. A recent study in New Zealand compared the link between loneliness in the elderly community.

With over 70,000 elders that contributed to the study, the data allowed researchers to study the loneliness in the community.Centenarians which are elders that are 100 years or older were less lonely that elders who were in between the ages of 65-99. With the International Residential Assessment Instrument-Home Care (interRAI-HC), model researchers were able to find a 32% reduction in[…]

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  • Alzheimer's Eye Scan

Alzheimer’s Eye Scan

By |October 31, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |

A new discovery could help catch Alzheimer’s early in just a matter of seconds. Studies are showing that with a noninvasive scan of your eye it can detect Alzheimer’s at an early stage.

Currently specialists use memory tests and track behavioral changes and patterns. Many researchers are trying to discover new ways to detect these different diseases at early stages. Researchers at Duke University in NC say that Alzheimer’s can be diagnosed in a matter of seconds with just a look into the eye. With two different studies that were presented at[…]

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