Your Paycheck and Your Lifespan
Why the middle class will have eight fewer years of healthy life than the rich, and what that means for you.
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Growing number of Americans are retiring outside the U.S.
A foreign resident teaches local children how to draw at the Cultural Arts Center in Ajijic June 9, 2012. For decades, American and Canadian expats have flocked to the shores of Chapala, seeking refuge...
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Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 2009, and Dr. Elissa Epel, a health psychologist who studies stress, aging, and obesity, discuss their book, The Telomere...
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Column: Social Security will reduce paper statements in 2017. Here’s why it...
Mature adult looking at Social Security documents Photo by Jim McGuire/Getty ImagesEditor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on aging and retirement, is here to provide the answers...
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Care provider directories wrong nearly half the time in Medicare Advantage...
Photo by Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesEditor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on aging and retirement, is here to provide the answers you need. Phil is the...
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Column: Why aren’t my chiropractic appointments covered by Medicare?
Phil Moeller is here to provide the answers you need on aging and retirement. Photo by Dean Mitchell/Getty ImagesEditor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller is here to provide the answers you need on...
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My employer health insurance is unaffordable. Should I get Medicare?
Journalist Philip Moeller answers your questions on aging and retirement. Photo by Ariel Skelley/Blend Images via Getty Images.Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller is here to provide the answers...
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Column: Need to unload family heirlooms? Prepare for disappointment
Richard Eisenberg of Next Avenue has advice for boomers desperate to unload family heirlooms. Photo by Jon Nazca/ReutersEditor’s Note: Next Avenue columnist Richard Eisenberg has advice for boomers...
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Want to live past 100? These centenarians share their secrets
100-year-old Marge Jetton lifts weights every morning. “I’m for anything that has to do with health” Jetton says. Photo by Getty.Gertrude Siegel is 101 and hears it all the time. “Everyone says ‘I want...
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Many seniors who qualify for home-based care under Medicare aren’t receiving...
A worrisome and growing number of Medicare enrollees have said that they have been denied home-based care even though they are qualified to receive it and it is covered by Medicare, Phil Moeller...
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How older adults can recover from loneliness
Photo by Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty ImagesIt’s widely believed that older age is darkened by persistent loneliness. But a considerable body of research confirms this isn’t the case.In fact, loneliness...
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If I’m healthy, do I really need a Medigap or Medicare Advantage plan?
The Social Security Administration has no idea who’s in your family unless you tell them. That information can affect the benefits you collect. Photo by Siri Stafford/Getty Images.Editor’s Note:...
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What do you need to know about successful aging and retirement?
Tens of millions of adults are chronically lonely, which has deleterious impacts on aging. Photo by brunella fratini/via Adobe. related words: seniors, retirement, health care, medicareEditor’s Note:...
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Think you’re too old for a bucket list? These 90-somethings disagree
Mildred “Milly” Reeves, right, flies a Cessna Model 172 with assistance from pilot Pete Lockner, left. (Screengrab of family video/YouTube)It is one thing to have a bucket list at any age. It is...
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What’s the best place to retire? Keep these factors in mind before settling...
Photo by Eric Gaillard/ReutersEditor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller is here to provide the answers you need on aging and retirement. His weekly column, “Ask Phil,” aims to help older Americans and...
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How the back pain industry is taking patients for an unhealthy ride
Searching for solutions to back pain can lead sufferers into an expensive and sometimes dangerous maze of ineffectual treatments, procedures and pills, journalist and investigative reporter Cathryn...
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Help! I lost my job and just turned 65. What do I do about health insurance?
Phil Moeller answers your aging and retirement questions in his weekly column, “Ask Phil.” Photo by Lucy Nicholson/ReutersEditor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller is here to provide the answers you...
View ArticleBill Nye Lets Out His Inner Nerd, How To Grow Old Without Getting Old, 'A...
Bill Nye joins us to discuss his new book Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem. Malachy McCourt on his latest book Death Need Not Be...
View Article#100 Is 100 That Exciting?
In honor of our 100th episode, producer Abigail Keel talks to some centenarians about the good and the bad of 100. To join the conversation, go to www.longestshortesttime.com! This episode is brought...
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Older people dying on job at higher rate than all workers
Poor women are four times more likely to be jobless by the end of treatment than their better-off peers, according to a study published Monday in Health Affairs. Photo by srisakorn/via AdobeOlder...
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