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  • Celebrating Assisted Living Celebrating Assisted Living

    By Cyndi Koenes Regional Marketing & Sales Director Park Vista - North Hill Park Vista - Camanche National Assisted Living Week (NALW) for 2025 will be held from September 7-13. The theme for this year is "Ageless Adventure". This is a week set aside every year to celebrate the residents...

  • Buying Supplemental Health Insurance:  Medigap Buying Supplemental Health Insurance: Medigap

    You can visit the Medicare website, medicare.gov, to find important information on how Medigap policies work with Medicare. By Craig Schillig, FSCP, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Medicare won't cover all of your health-care costs during retirement, so you may want to buy a su...

  • Your Advocacy Connection Your Advocacy Connection

    We Solve Long-Term Care Problems Why Should I Care About Entitlement versus Block Grant? By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate We talked last month about changes ahead in public benefits. There are a couple words to watch for and what they mean to you. Entitlement –...

  • Calendar of Events | AUGUST 2025 Calendar of Events | AUGUST 2025

    If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809  Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Grou...

  • Aging and You Aging and You

    No Better Time Than Now By Julie Arndt Marketing Director at Ridgecrest Village There has never been a better time to consider moving to a senior living community—especially if you currently own your own home. Right now, it’s a seller’s market, and summer is the prime time of year to sell...

  • A Pause for Poetry A Pause for Poetry

    By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles.       Sun Mystery The sun lies in golden islands, Dappling through the tall trees, And all about there is silence, And an air of primeval mysteries. Here portends the deep un-happened, Soon prelude to what has happen...

  • Handling Market Volatility Handling Market Volatility

    Though there's no foolproof way to handle the ups and downs of the stock market, the following common-sense tips can help. By Craig Schillig, FSCP, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Conventional wisdom says that what goes up, must come down. But even if you view market volatility ...

  • Changes for the Future at CASI Changes for the Future at CASI

    By Laura Kopp CASI President/CEO Acquiescence. Not a word I find myself using very often. And certainly not a word I have applied to my leadership in the past. That changed this month. To acquiesce is to accept something with regret but without protest. To wish for a different outcome; all the w...