Fifty years ago, it wasn’t unusual to find products sold in the drug store with a “Skull and Crossed Bones” on the label. Tincture of Iodine was one product that most seniors are familiar. Black Box drugs are now long gone, replaced with branded products that cost much more. Today’s prescription drugs carry such warnings…
Research Shows Volunteering Seniors Better Maintain Physical and Mental Health Senior volunteers are making a difference each day, not just in local churches, community organizations, neighborhoods, senior centers, and healthcare organizations, but in their own physical and emotional wellbeing. In a recent poll conducted by the Home Instead Senior Care network, 95 percent of seniors…
Most pharmaceutical companies run drug assistance programs aimed to facilitate the accessibility of needed medications for patients who are in financial difficulties and are not eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or private insurance. These programs have different requirements and require the physician to register the patient. Programs are evolving rapidly, so I enjoin you to consult…
This is the story of my Costa Rica facelift. Additional contact information and Costa Rica plastic surgery and facelift cost are below. I’d just turned 65, and had declared no national holiday. When I looked into the mirror, Yoda looked back. Who was that wrinkled old prune? Surely, not me, she who lives with the…
Dearest Suddenly Senior friends, Last we checked in, both Carolyn and I had been declared in remission from our cancers. Free to travel again, we thought. Free to be us again at last! (Read all the columns to learn about that, starting here with Suddenly Senior’s birth.) But remission never lived up to its reputation….
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