Archive for August, 2024

  • The Economic Impact of an Aging World The Economic Impact of an Aging World

    By Richard J. Schillig, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Spending on programs for an aging population is already straining economies throughout the world, and the economic pressure will increase as populations continue to age. During the week of June 10, 2024, French m...

  • You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know! You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know!

    By Sue Fleischman Rector CASI Director of Development I find myself using that odd statement more and more in my life as I continue to be amazed at all of the things I continue to discover that I had not known.  I have been associated with CASI since my Mother was involved back in the early 200...

  • Shots & Myths: Separating Vaccination Fact  from Fiction About Vaccinations Shots & Myths: Separating Vaccination Fact from Fiction About Vaccinations

    Contributed by NCEA - National Center on Elder Abuse Vaccinations are crucial in safeguarding public health, though prevalent myths and misconceptions cause many elderly people to remain hesitant about getting vaccinated.  Let's address some common concerns and separate fact from fiction to empo...

  • Just Saying... Just Saying…

    By Q.C. Jones Hit Me With Your Best Shot Way back in 1980, spandex and leather clad rock songstress Pat Benatar had a catchy hit single called “Hit me with your best shot.” The song would further propel Benatar’s rise as a recording artist, personality, and MTV star. Some forty years later...

  • Aging and You Aging and You

    By Julie Arndt Marketing Director at Ridgecrest Village How Quickly It Can Happen I was reminded recently on a personal level how quickly things can change, as well as how standard medical jargon and service resource information can be overwhelming, especially when making critical decisions o...

  • One Day at a Time! One Day at a Time!

    By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.”                                              ... Robert Browning I am carving a small amount of time today out my crazy busy world to get these...

  • A Pause for Poetry A Pause for Poetry

    By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles.       Terrestrial Odyssey The sublime magnitude of what is, the fierce Beauty of nature, the innate, ornate duende of Humanity awe, sequelae to our Earth births. Under cerulean skies, we intuit, we sense, grand Supern...

  • Your Advocacy Connection Your Advocacy Connection

    We Solve Long Term Care Problems By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate Is It Time to Simplify Your Life? We have all heard Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time t...