Healthy Seniors

Boomer & Seniors: Easy and affordable tips to maintain an active, safe and healthy lifestyle

Hi Fellow Seniors,

I am told that age wise, the new 70 is the old 50 and I can believe that. I know that I don’t feel old and I’m 75. I may not have the strength and endurance that I once had but I feel great and most days I feel as good as or better than I felt at 50 and 55. Now I know that this is a blessing available to most seniors if we but take good care of ourselves. But we must exercise our bodies and our minds, eat right and stay in touch with friends and with what is going on in the world.

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The Dangers of Sitting

Hi Folks,

  

I’m just back from morning exercise with my senior’s exercise group. . . I thought I was going to die!

 

After missing so many days due to cataract surgery, Christmas/New Years break, and snow days I am so out of shape. I have a great treadmill and lots of room to exercise at home but I still found plenty of excuses to goof off. So I’m back to being Mr. Softee. Shame on me. And it will take me a lot longer to bounce back than when I was younger, especially now that it’s winter and I spend a lot of time sitting.

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Retire Mental Clutter

Hi Folks,

Well, leave it to our British friend Susan Kersley to head us in the right direction for making our retirement life better – - by getting rid of “mental clutter”.

We have so many wonderful things to think about, to remember and to reflect upon but many times we let our “mental clutter” ruin it all!

Anyone know where I can get a good mental clutter broom?

Woody

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Hearing Aids – Advice from a Professional

Hi Folks,

Here is a follow-up to yesterdays post about my personal experience with hearing aids.

I talk to so many people that are really, really unhappy with their hearing aids. The chief causes for their not being pleased seem to be:

• They did not shop around. They went to one vendor and that was it. No comparison shopping. No checking other audologist’s findings.
• Their aids are uncomfortable but the audiologist says they will get used to them (but they never do).
• They expected to hear as well as they did before they lost their hearing. 
• Repair costs and readjustments are too expensive.
• They were high pressured into buying expensive aids.
• They get tired of going back to the vendor for readjustments.
• They did not learn about the different types of hearing aids available before they purchased a pair.
• They did not read anything about hearing aids except advertisments before they went to the audiologist.

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Hearing Aids – An owner’s Experience

Hi Folks,

I have been wearing hearing aids for over seven years. I guess I should say that I have owned hearing aids for over seven years. But until I purchased my new pair about six months ago I didn’t wear them very often.  

My first pair of hearing aids were very expensive. Looking back on it now I can’t believe I paid that much for them (almost $7,000.00) but frankly I was getting desperate. I was still employed and it was important in my job that I could hear well. My days were spent working with people and in meetings and it was getting more and more difficult to understand what people were saying.

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