Life Done Right™

Living in Hollywood may cause you to watch a few too many film noir movies such that you become obsessed with constructing your real life into a pot boiler that ends, as usual, badly. A desperate older woman recruited homeless men, fed them, AND took out insurance policies on them. Then she had them offed […]

Those living near the Mexican border know first hand that an imaginary line separating one country from another doesn’t mean a whole hell of lot in terms of restricting the flow of non-US citizens into this country. If you can find a way into this country, legal or otherwise, then anything goes because the enforcement […]

If you work past the age of 65, then your employer is allowed to cut back on the health benefits package that comes with your job. Why? Because you qualify for Medicare, so why should they eat the overhead. That seems fair, as long as you qualify for Medicare.
U.S. Ruling Backs Benefit Cut at 65 […]

Here’s the setup: an 85-year-old Baltimore woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cataracts and a benign brain tumor can function fine in an assisted living facility but doesn’t qualify for Medicaid aid unless she goes into a nursing. The state of Maryland was told to reconsider her plight […]

A new study suggests that despite your reluctance to live a healthy life, making a few changes to your diet and exercising can vastly improve the odds that you won’t be fodder for the worms or flames a tad too soon. So now there’s no excuse for not putting down the remote and shoveling that […]

Telemarketers make a living by convincing a person at the other end of the phone to cough up some bucks, sometimes lots of bucks, for usually absurd reasons. A good portion of the time the solicitation is two words away from a felony. This editorial makes it clear that a phone that rings throughout the […]

The notion of zapping the brain with a couple jolts of electricity in order to shock it out of depression seems about as informed as applying leeches to the body in an effort to rid the blood of unwanted impurities. When all else fails, though, and the days are growing darker by the minute, I […]

It’s bad enough that nursing homes stink like rotting flesh and a fair portion of the residents are simply waiting for the invisible hand of darkness to snatch them from their misery, but now comes word that while you were feeling good about dumping off your loved one there, relieved that it was no longer […]

Ever heard of asanas for the elderly, including Pranayama, Meditation, Tadasana, Trikonasana, Ardha Chakrasana, Vajrasana, Sarpasana, Vipareeta Karani and Savasana? I sure haven’t, but if you’re into yoga, that means someone has figured out a series of posture positions that make old age a little easier through proper exercise.

It’s hard to tell if this is a home-made commercial for the Got Milk campaign or the real deal. A couple of older guys, who like to drink milk, prove they’re fit and ready to take on the world by head-butting a couple of thugs who throw a kid out of a diner booth so […]

Religion has a way of inserting itself into every personal aspect of your life that you just might begin to wonder whether there’s any room left in your head to call your own. Forget a room with a view, how about a head without dogma to get you through the day! A recent religious conference […]

Old age brings a rash of problems that have nothing to do with your life but somehow become the focal point of your daily existence. Who knew pill popping at $5 a pill times four or five would produce such a strain on your meager purse. When your children come to visit why is it […]

Pay attention, caregivers! Someone has finally produced a study about the cost of providing caregiving to family members. The upshot: “These caregivers, spending on average 10 percent of their household income, manage the financial burden by taking out loans, skipping vacations, dipping into savings or ignoring their own health care.” The average out-of-pocket amount is […]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report says: “The document says recent research has heightened concern that the poor and the elderly will suffer most from climate change; that hunger and disease will be more common; that droughts, floods and heat waves will afflict the world’s poorest regions; and that more animal and plant species […]

With New York real estate prices so insane, the thought of a developer investing in a continuing care community makes about as much sense as growing grapes in the Arctic. You can try, but it’s the wrong environment. Sure you could build a green house up there, but it would cost you a small fortune […]

“We’re here. We’re old. Get the f**k used to it.” [Edited for those of you who find the English language offensive.]
Mark Cuban, the dude who sold broadcast.com for $500 million before the internet bubble burst, recently vented about the media constantly writing articles about how anyone over the age of 30 seems incapable of adapting […]

It’s one thing to pull a map out of the glove compartment and figure out where you are so you can get to where you’re supposed to be going, but why bother. Why not just buy a gps-enabled navigation system from Garmin, slap that puppy on your dashboard, and let the voice of your choice […]

It sounds good, doesn’t: the medical costs for seniors is increasing at a slower rate than for those poor suckers who are under 65. Gee, why is that? Our guess: The Bush administration has allowed the health care and insurance industry to shift the cost burden onto working stiffs who have no clue of how […]

Fixed income retirement is about as pleasurable as having your wisdom teeth pulled by a student at a university teaching clinic. The cost of everything keeps rising but the cash flow off Social Security remains pretty much the same. Without any saved income, the thought of living in a city like New York seems absurd. […]

Add one more reason to question the values of Catholicism as preached by those who profess to act in selfless servitude to he who goes by the name of God. If you weren’t shocked, yes shocked, by the rampant sexual abuse behavior of priests, then you probably won’t mind a priest here or there preying […]