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| Senior Citizen Scams |
If you have a senior citizen in the family, there really is nothing more heartbreaking than to discover than to find out that your loved one has been the victim of a senior citizen scam which robbed them out of their precious retirement savings and puts their retirement at risk. When you co |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Retirement - Seniors Issues |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Smart Traveling for Senior Citizens |
| One of the real joys of retirement and enjoying your senior years may come in the form of travel. Travel is broadening and many senior citizens save for a lifetime to enjoy a lifestyle of travel once they are retired. The image of becoming a world traveler in their senior years is one of those dream |
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| Directory: Retirement - Seniors Issues |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Stalker Stalkers |
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There is an epidemic of crime going on around us. And it’s an epidemic that is invisible and happening in homes all around your community quietly so that nobody knows its happening. It’s a crime that will take the dedication of people who care deeply for their families and have a lot of time to |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Retirement - Seniors Issues |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Stretching Your Retirement Savings |
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There is what we call in business a “paradigm shift” when you move from the working world to the world of retirement. A paradigm shift means that the rules we live by and the economy that regulates our lives will change dramatically. Whether you have a large retirement package or you have retir |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Retirement - Seniors Issues |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Stripped Shirts and Straw Hats |
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There was a study recently that found that the majority of people who graduate from college with majors in music never go on to a career in music. Besides the natural conclusion that a lot of kids never use their degrees, it leads to another less obvious conclusion. And that is that there is a |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Take Some Risks |
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There is a classic image of a senior citizen driving with their turn signals continuously on and poking along 20 miles under the speed limit on the highway. A popular comedian once quipped that if he was 80 years old, he would “drive like hell” since, after all, why not take some risks at 80? |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Time to Write the Great American Novel |
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How many times when you was moving through the decades of raising a family and building a career did you say that you were going to write the great American novel when you retired? Now as you settle into a life of retirement and the lifestyle of a senior citizen, do you wonder if now might be th |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| A Home for Grandma |
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When you have a senior parent, the concern for their ability to maintain their lifestyle can be a significant worry. Almost without exception, senior citizens resist the idea of moving out of their house and into an assisted living facility or nursing home. You as a child of a senior citizen ma |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| A Time Consuming Hobby |
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When you are raising a family and involved in a demanding career, if someone asks you what your hobby is, you probably would answer “Who has time for a hobby?” That is why retirement and your senior citizen years are the perfect opportunity to get involved in a time consuming hobby and be able t |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Becoming Gandalf |
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In the classic books, The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf was the wise old wizard that guided the heroic party through to success. While we don’t have real Gandalfs in our lives, you may be able to remember when you were young that wise elder statesman that you looked up to and revered because they w |
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| Bringing in the New Blood |
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When a senior citizen finds a new romantic companion late in life, it’s a wonderful moment for both. Romances late in life can provide a much needed source of companionship and love that may be missing if the senior has lost a spouse or is going through their golden years alone. But it’s common |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Can Grandpa Still Drive? |
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Some of the issues involving helping your senior citizen parent or grandparent can be difficult and full of tough decisions. Seniors face unique medical and lifestyle issues that call upon them and those that love them to find solutions that they can live with. And it’s very common for senior c |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Coping With Anger About Aging |
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They say there are stages of grief. Some of those stages include denial, depression and acceptance. But one that many of us experience is anger. While we most often associate grief with the emotions when a loved one passes away, we can go through grief about a lot of things. People go through |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Ethical Wills |
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You probably did not wait until you officially became a “senior citizen” to prepare your will. Most of us put one together early in life and at least when we have children and realize we do have assets and we need to make sure the kids are taken care of in the case of an accident that suddenly t |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Fighting Loneliness |
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When you are raising your kids in your adult years, it seems you will never know a minute’s peace. Each day was another explosion of yelling, running and wild activity in the house from the moment the kids are born until they are grown and moving out. It was when the last one finally made their |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Finally Dealing with God |
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There is an area of life that for many of us, is a big unanswered question. When we are in the decades of working hard to support a family and raise kids, we don’t have as much time to deal with big unanswered questions. Philosophy and things having to do with ideas often take a back seat to th |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Fun Is Different Now |
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Even as senior citizens, you can probably remember being a child when the most important thing in the world was having fun. Well there are some remarkable similarities between your life as a senior citizen and those carefree days of childhood. For one thing, when you were a child, you didn’t wo |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Giving Your Time Away |
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One of the joys of retirement is that you are into a time of life when making a buck and worrying about using your time “profitably” is less of an issue. But it’s not entirely accurate that all senior citizens want to retire to spend the day rocking on the back porch and taking long naps. Human |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Going Back to School |
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For most of us, our senior citizen years are a time to relax, maybe pursue a hobby, travel or just relax and let life go by. But, for many, retirement isn’t just a time to lay the goals of life down. It is a time to look back over life at the unfinished challenges and then go back and finish th |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Grandparents Raising Grandchildren |
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There is a family phenomenon that you may face now as you should be heading into a leisurely life of a senior citizen and retirement. But if you find that you are being called upon to raise your own grandchildren, that is a senior citizen lifestyle that is very different than what was expected. |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Hide and Seek |
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Children love to play hide and seek. When you were raising those sweet kids of yours, it was great fun to join them in that game. Another variation on it that lots of us play with the grandkids is “where’s Grandpa?” This is the one where you hide your face and then suddenly show it to a baby j |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Making Washington Listen |
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The federal government is the type of institution that works on the squeaky wheel principle. That principle, simply stated, is that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Applied to Washington, that means that it will be the areas of life that public officials think will get them the most votes tha |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Putting Your Affairs in Order |
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Moving into the phase of life of a senior citizen calls for thinking about things that you might have put off before. This includes many of life’s philosophical questions and looking back on life and thinking about what you did well and what you regret. But aside from those reflective questions |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Retirement isn’t for Everybody |
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Are you the type of person who never was able live up to stereotypes? When we think of a stereotype, the classic is the image of your standard senior citizen. That image is as a slowly moving Grandma or Grandpa who is long done working at their career and wants nothing more than to sit on the b |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:01:00 -0600) |
| Romance in the Sunset Years |
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When you watch television or the movies, you would come to the conclusion that romance is only the stuff of those in their teens or 20s. As though somehow once someone reaches full adulthood, much less senior citizen age, the concept of romance is completely out of the question. This may be mor |
| Author: Keries |
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