Seniors
Social Security Q&A: Disability benefits
Q: Is there a time limit on how long I can receive Social Security disability benefits?
Seniors
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FASHION
On-trend, over 50: Embrace fashion and your best features with tips to help you look as stylish as ever
Today's fashion lines are blurry, and it's not my old 60-plus-year-old eyes that are the problem. No, I see the confusion among many of my fellow baby boomers when it comes to what fashion look is right for our age.
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SENIORS
David Graham charged from behind to win his U.S. Open in 1981
David Graham wasn't sure how he was going to play when he arrived at Merion for the 1981 U.S. Open. He had taken the three weeks before that off, citing fatigue. He had won the Phoenix Open early that season, his sixth PGA Tour victory of a career that would include 38 worldwide wins.
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HEALTH
For 92-year-old, cycling has helped him lead 'more active, longer life'
Joe Datsko was an admitted workaholic for the first 25 years of a 47-year career as a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan. Datsko likes to say that until he was in his early 50s "most of my exercise was writing on a blackboard."
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SENIORS
California scientist still reinventing the wheel at 94
LIVERMORE, Calif. -At 94, Dick Post is the oldest scientist Lawrence Livermore Laboratory has ever had.
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SENIORS
Savvy Senior, June 11, 2013: How to find lost life-insurance policies
It¿s estimated that around $1 billion in benefits from unclaimed life-insurance policies are waiting to be claimed by their rightful beneficiaries.
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SENIORS
Social Security Q&A: Starting retirement benefits
Q: My neighbor said he applied for Social Security retirement benefits on the computer. Can you really apply for retirement without traveling to an office?
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HEALTH
Maintain walkers, wheelchairs as you would a car
Owning a cane, wheelchair or walker is a little bit like owning a car, said Brad Barnhart, a physical therapist at North Oaks, a senior living community in Pikesville, Md. Skip maintenance, and it could lead to unsafe conditions. Barnhart, with more than 25 years of experience in senior living settings...
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SENIORS
Majority of female, black and Latino seniors on cusp of poverty
A new report on the senior population found a majority of elderly women, blacks and Latinos are precariously close to poverty, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute report released Thursday.
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HEALTH
Savvy Senior: How to find a good handyman or contractor
Can you offer us seniors any tips for finding a good handyman to do some work around the house? I’m 71 and have had some bad luck lately with handymen who either don’t show up or don’t finish what they start. -- Searching Senior
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HEALTH
How to pick the best Medicare prescription drug plan for you
I recently received a letter from my Medicare “Part D” prescription drug plan provider notifying me that my premiums and co-pays will be increasing next year, and they are dropping coverage on one of the drugs that I take. How can I find a better drug plan?
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