There is a range of factors that can raise your risk of developing heart disease and having a heart attack or stroke. The more factors you have, the greater your risk.Although you can’t do anything about your age, gender, race and family history, there are factors you can modify, treat or control by making lifestyle changes or taking medication.Quit smoking. A … [Read more...]

Most of us know to watch out from mid-February into March — those sweet young ladies with their boxes of cookies will be out and about. Just when you think your new year’s resolutions are solid, and you’ve gotten past the addiction to Thin Mints, here they come again!It’s true, Girl Scouts in Georgia have been selling cookies for a long time; 2018 marks the 101st … [Read more...]

Unfortunately, seniors can be easy targets for fraud. Scams threaten seniors’ assets and independence, and can cause emotional and physical harm.Fraud can happen over the phone, via mail, in person or on the internet. Senior citizens are more readily available to scammers, because they tend to be home during the day, read their mail and answer the phone.Seniors often … [Read more...]

Some of us may retire at 65 and live to 100 or 105. Advances in health care may make this a strong possibility. The corresponding question is: Will we outlive our money? Our increased longevity poses a retirement planning challenge.More people are spending more of their lives in retirement. According to the actuaries at Social Security, today’s 65-year-olds have roughly a … [Read more...]

The interstate is closed. A detour sign sends my car creeping along a narrow country road crusted with snow. Evening is coming soon. I am somewhere on a nameless midway on my route from Nashville to Atlanta. The horizon is a low-hanging blanket of clouds, ready to drop silently over the fragile bone-bare trees edging the fields.I seem to be the only living soul in this … [Read more...]