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Incomes Vary Among Residents of Retirement Communities
Incomes Vary Among Residents of Retirement Communities . . Seeking to explore income and housing choices from a new angle, a team of economists explored the incomes and assets of people who lived in... Click headline for the complete article and mor...
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays By Dr. Nancy Irwin In preparing for the upcoming holidays, are you filled with eager anticipation or fear of family? Is home for the holidays more like hell for the holidays?... Click headline for the complete article and more ...
Aging Women Happier With Positive Relationships
Aging Women Happier With Positive Relationships As women age, they are more likely to be alone because of widowhood, divorce and being single. Noting that previous research has focused on spouses in... Click headline for the complete article and mo...
Life Transitions for the Sandwich Generation
Life Transitions for the Sandwich Generation Tips from the authors of The Insider’s Guide to Dementia Care By Katherine E. Goethe, PhD, and Martha E. Leatherman, MD Special to BB[KC] No one wants... Click headline for the complete article and m...
Knowledge Links for Baby Boomers Seeking Career and Employment Options
Knowledge Links for Baby Boomers Seeking Career and Employment Options . . Three interesting articles to help Baby Boomer better understand what they are up against as they search for a new job,... Click headline for the complete article and more te...
Latest Statistics Describe U.S. Baby Boomers
Latest Statistics Describe U.S. Baby Boomers . For the first time in 13 years, the U.S. Census Bureau has released a collection of statistics on the Baby Boomer generation, those people ages 42-60... Click headline for the complete article and more ...
Personality Hardiness: Resilience in the ReCareer Search
Personality Hardiness: Resilience in the ReCareer Search By Dr. Richard Johnson Ph.D. Special to BB[KC] What is the power that motivates some individuals to rise above themselves and do their best... Click headline for the complete article and more...
The Holidays and Aging Parents
The Holidays and Aging Parents by Carolyn L. Rosenblatt, R. N., Attorney at Law If you live a distance from your parents, and you don’t see them but a few times a year, the holidays can be... Click headline for the complete article and more terr...
Can a Quality Pillow Help Promote a Good Night’s Sleep? The Short Answer is Yes!
Can a Quality Pillow Help Promote a Good Night’s Sleep? The Short Answer is Yes! Review and commentary by Martin Diano, Publisher - BBKC]™ One of the perks of being the publisher of BB[KC]™ is... Click headline for the complete article and mo...
Midlife Matters with H. Les Brown
Midlife Matters with H. Les Brown Every Change is a Little Death I’m changing. It’s not too late, and I’m not too old. In fact, the opposite is true. I just put the finishing touches on a... Click headline for the complete article and...
Veterans Benefits for Aging Boomers: Why the Veterans Administration Needs to Take its Cue from the IRS
Publisher’s Note: I first came into contact Debbie Burak on Facebook when I began noticing the extraordinary work she does on behalf of American Veterans, particularly Boomer Veterans. There are... Click headline for the complete article and more ...
Hot Button Poll—Caring for Your Aging Parents
Hot Button Poll:Caring for Your Aging Parents Have you considered placing your parents in an assisted living facility? > Yes, but it is difficult to raise the issue with them. > Yes, but there are... Click headline for the complete article and mo...
What Makes a City Accessible for Boomers? Planning and Commitment
What Makes a City Accessible for Boomers? Planning and Commitment By Patrece Banks – Aging in Place Columnist As I travel to cities like San Francisco, Boston and New York I wonder how boomers can... Click headline for the complete article and mo...
WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!
WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!! by Dr. Nancy Irwin No, I’m not talking about the economy or my retirement funds… .. I was recently honored to interpret some tween celebrities’ dreams for a teen magazine. Many... Click headline for the complete article an...
Survey Shows that Americans Lack Significant Knowledge of Age-Related Vision Problems
Survey Shows that Americans Lack Significant Knowledge of Age-Related Vision Problems .Macular degeneration and glaucoma among the top areas Americans have the most misunderstanding according to the... Click headline for the complete article and mor...
Glossary of Housing Terms: A Framework for Understanding Your Options
Glossary of Housing Terms: A Framework for Understanding Your Options by Susan Hindman - Silver Planet Feature Writer Special to BB[KC] Once upon a time, nursing homes were the only option for... Click headline for the complete article and more t...
SETTING BOUNDARIES – GAINING SANITY!
SETTING BOUNDARIES – GAINING SANITY! The Six Steps to SANITY Allison Bottke Let’s say we’re diagnosed with a severe illness—“Sickness X.” .Sickness X is a serious illness, to be sure, yet it can... Click headline for the complete arti...
Caring for Menopausal Skin - Everything You Need to Know
Caring for Menopausal Skin - Everything You Need to Know by: Carrie E. Pierce Special to BB[KC] The skin is very complex. A living, breathing, renewing organ- it serves as the body's second bowel,... Click headline for the complete article and mor...
Ten Things to Do and Not to Do After Divorce During the Holidays!
Ten Things to Do and Not to Do After Divorce During the Holidays! by Joanie Winberg Special to BB[KC] Five Things to Do 1) Give yourself the gift of YOU Re-charge your energy to lower your stress... Click headline for the complete article and mo...
YOU-TURN: CHANGING DIRECTION IN MIDLIFE
YOU-TURN: CHANGING DIRECTION IN MIDLIFE Dr. Nancy B. Irwin Special to BB[KC] What is it with society and numbers? Start school at age 6, graduate high school at 18, finish college by 22 and retire... Click headline for the complete article and more...
Sandwich Generation: Baby Boomer Women Stuck in the Middle
Sandwich Generation: Baby Boomer Women Stuck in the Middle by Barbara Meltzer Special to BB[KC] GEORGE BURNS ONCE SAID, “HAPPINESS IS having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family—in another... Click headline for the complete article and m...
Make This List Before Your Bucket List
Make This List Before Your Bucket List Blowing Up the old Old!™ By Joyce Mason – Special Guest Contributor I loved the movie, The Bucket List, with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Most people... Click headline for the complete article and mo...
Midlife Matters with H. Les Brown
Midlife Matters with H. Les Brown The Cost of Doing Nothing Robert Kiyosaki in his book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, makes the point that houses aren't really assets, they're liabilities. Anyone... Click headline for the complete article and more te...
Distress-Free Aging with Amy Sherman
Distress-Free Aging with Amy Sherman Staying Flexible as You Age ─ Part lll By Amy Sherman - BB[KC] Columnist How can you increase your overall well-being? It’s easy if you stay open and receptive... Click headline for the complete article and ...
Divorced Boomer Women Now Have a Place to Turn for Professional Help
Are you single again either through divorce or the loss of a loved one? Are you a single mom? You don’t have to face this challenging time in your life alone. The National Association of Divorce... Click headline for the complete article and mor...
Three Easy Ways to Socialize in Your After-50 Years
Three Easy Ways to Socialize in Your After-50 Years By Nancy Merz Nordstrom─Lifelong Learning Columnist Over the last twenty years, scientists have documented the fact that older adults who are... Click headline for the complete article and more...
New CogniFit Senior Driver Keeps Elderly Drivers Safely Behind the Wheel
New CogniFit Senior Driver Keeps Elderly Drivers Safely Behind the Wheel CogniFit Program Offers a Baseline Assessment and Brain Training To Develop Better Driving-Related Cognitive Skills for... Click headline for the complete article and more t...
Fit at Any Age and Any Size with Sherry Netherland
Fit at Any Age and Any Size with Sherry Netherland. .Publisher's Note:Fit at Any Age and Any Size with Sherry Netherland is our newest regular column on BB[KC]. Sherry's column will appear on the... Click headline for the complete article and more t...
Smart Women Have “Personal” Power
Publisher’s Note Today begins a new monthly column with alliance partner Kalon Women. Each month, BB[KC] will feature an expert associated with Kalon Women, who will provide helpful advice to Baby... Click headline for the complete article and mor...
Your Aging Parents May Need Your Persistence
Your Aging Parents May Need Your Persistence by Patrece Banks—BB[KC] Aging in Place Cloumnist No one wants to be told what to do. But there are times when we as children need to help our parents... Click headline for the complete article and more...
