How Is Social Security COLA Calculated?
For the average recipient, the 2021 monthly increase doesn’t even cover a fill-up at the gas station — but it beats nothing.
September 26, 2021
How Does a Breakthrough COVID Infection Feel?
Generally speaking, vaccinated people who contract COVID-19 and develop symptoms are prone to the same ones that an unvaccinated person might experience. These include fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, body aches, headache, sore throat, congestion, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Loss of taste or smell can sometimes serve as telltale clue, although it doesn’t happen to everyone.
September 4, 2021
What Is Science Doing About Hearing Loss?
Although hearing loss is a very common sensory loss — affecting one-third of all American adults between the ages of 65 and 74 and nearly half of those older than 75 — solutions to hearing problems have been slow to materialize. Until recently, hearing aids only made things louder, not necessarily clearer. Scientists have yet to discover a way to repair damage to the inner ear.
September 3, 2021
Can I Avoid Costly Medicare Mistakes?
Workers who are nearing age 65 and have health insurance through their job may want to consider how Medicare could factor into their medical coverage.
August 24, 2021
Ways to decrease the risk of dementia & boost your brain health.
Here are seven habits that can boost your brain health in your 50s and beyond.
July 5, 2021
Start tuning in to your health after 50.
There’s a lot to celebrate when you hit the big five-oh. Discounts start to kick in, investments begin to mature and — how does the saying go? — with age comes wisdom.
June 30, 2021
