Archive for January, 2025
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Aging and You
Happy New Year 2025! By Julie Arndt Marketing Director at Ridgecrest Village As we make plans and new goals for 2025, it’s a good time to look back to 2024. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, average inflation was up 2.6% for the year through November. Overall, things are looking good for...
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The Dietitian’s Guide to 2025: Emerging Nutrition and Food
By Hannah Anderson MA, RDN, LDN, CLS Hy-Vee Registered Dietician (515) 695-3602 hannah.anderson1@hy-vee.com The New Year is a great time to reset and focus on feeling your best. It’s when many of us set goals to eat healthier, move more, and take better care of ourselves. As our underst...
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Your Advocacy Connection
We Solve Long Term Care Problems Happy New Year! By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate The start of a new year often inspires us to clear out the old and make a fresh start. Back when I worked at Modern Woodmen, the first Friday of January was designated as "New Year...
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Just Saying…
Releasing Pent-Up Feelings Is So Therapeutic By Q.C. Jones January tidings and — unless you are following the Chinese calendar these days with New Year's falling on January 29 — allow me to be one of the last to wish you a Happy New Year 2025. Typically, January reports are cheerful recaps of...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Mother’s Love Every child out of her body, They all became somebody! That was her wish at their birth, Noteworthy lives on the Earth. A few gravid times she swelled, To birth she never rebelled. ...
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Elusive Inner ‘Peace’
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” ... Anonymous The Holidays are full of references to peace such as ‘Peace on eart...
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Ask the Audiologist
By Kevin Kock, Au.D., MPH, CCC-A Audiology Consultants, P.C. Like many people, you may feel uncertain about hearing aids and how they might help you. Perhaps you're concerned about the fit and comfort or wondering how long it will take to adjust to using them. As a licensed audiologist, I work clo...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
The Elusiveness of Time By Eloise Graham Time definition. According to Merriam-Webster, the simple definition is “the measured or measurable period during which an action, process or condition exists or continues.” Physicists define time as the progression of events from the past to the pre...
