July 11, 2014

Is healthcare a commodity?As much as some of us do not like to admit it, when something like healthcare is a quarter of the U.S. economic output, it certainly is a commodity. Services are exchanged for money. Some services cost more than others and at times costs can be prohibitive to treatment. Health care is

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July 7, 2014

Caregivers and BalanceCaregivers face an overwhelming challenge in life, whether they know it or not. They have given themselves the challenge of balancing their own life with taking care of a loved one.  Caregivers sacrifice so much of their own time to help loved ones in need that they forget to take care of themselves. 

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March 3, 2014

Recently we posted to the Facebook page asking our subscribers what their biggest concern was with their elderly family members living independently. The responses we got took two basic forms: one was from the perspective of a caregiver, and one was from the perspective of the senior or loved one themselves. Both of them are

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September 20, 2013

Caregivers: You Need Balance It’s been a couple of weeks without some fresh content. Sorry about that. There’ll be more where this comes from next week. I saw a commercial not that long ago that talked about a squeaking fan in a warehouse. The voiceover explained that a bearing needed to be repaired, because it was

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August 30, 2013

This May Shock You, But Seniors Pay High Taxes in NJI will admit this is not one of the most shocking headlines to find its way out of the media in the last week: New Jersey isn’t ‘tax friendly’ for retirees, study shows In other news, nobody has built a shrine to Alex Rodriguez in Monument Park

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