Your Safe Retirement Coach
In my books and speaking engagements, I stress that the ability to live a longer and safer retirement can be summed up quite simply: a positive attitude towards life and a strong support structure around you will allow you to live longer. It’s always a wonderful thing to see this confirmed by recent news stories. [Read More...]
Dr. Lester Breslow was a wonderful researcher who not only went on to prove the link between healthy living and a long life, but his own life proved to be the best example to back up his research. Dr. Brelow died at his home in Los Angeles on Monday, April 9, 2012 at the age [Read More...]
I enjoy discovering new books and often find that the best reads are books written long ago and are better values that books sold today. The following “hints for health” are found in a book that is a very interesting read from the early 1900s called ‘Tramping and Camping’ by the Walking Woolfs. I’d explain [Read More...]
Dr. Stephen Post of Stony Brook University is a leader in the field of Alzheimer’s research and author of the best selling book, “The Hidden Gifts of Helping“. Please see the notice below and if you’re in the Ft. Lauderdale area during that time, I’d recommend that you see him! You can reserve tickets here.
In my book, Safe 4 Retirement: The 4 Keys to a Safe Retirement, I often discuss the need for retirees to take advantage of their time in retirement to continue to learn, both new and old subjects of interest. Retirement can be a time when you can finally study that subject you wanted to in [Read More...]
This is a great story and one in which I was unaware of. It appears in the AARP Bulletin by Jim Toedtman (full article below). Jim talks about Dr. George W. Calver who was the US Congress’ first appointed doctor (I think that these days they need a shrink instead but..), hired in 1928. Dr. [Read More...]
We hope and pray that the promises of so many drug trials may soon start to pay off. Some good news was announced today when researchers reported that two drugs can delay by “several months the time before advanced breast cancer worsens”. The drugs are from Genentech and Novartis and they showed signs of prolonging [Read More...]
Being retired doesn’t mean that stress isn’t part of your life. Concerns about finances, your health and the health of friends and family around you, the economy, the political landscape, and more can turn even the most calm retiree into a stressed out individual. And that doesn’t include those who watch Fox each night. Yes, [Read More...]
Okay, this one seems strange even to me. There exists a vaccine against chicken pox. To me that would indicate that it’s probably not a good disease to catch. However, recent news reports about a person in Tennessee selling chicken pox laced lollipops and recent “chicken pox parties” in which kids are being exposed to [Read More...]
I thought of my dad, who suffered with significant hearing loss throughout his entire life, when I read this article in the New York Times today. It discusses the use of hearing loops as a way to help those who are hearing impaired to hear only “the sounds coming directly from a microphone, not the [Read More...]
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end. -Steve Jobs
