Which Is Better: Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act?
Praise be to Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night talk show host, for exposing what people might like the least about Obamacare. Could it be the fact that President Obama’s name is part of it? On the eve of...
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El impacto del Seguro Social
Tal vez no pienses en el Seguro Social como un programa de estímulo económico, pero lo es. De hecho, un nuevo informe de AARP muestra que cada dólar que paga el Seguro Social genera, a su vez, unos $2...
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Social Security Enters the Debt-Ceiling Fray
There’s a lot on the line in the showdown over raising the federal debt ceiling — including, President Barack Obama says, retirement and disability benefits for millions of Americans. The nation’s...
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Who Knows All, Sees All, (and Now) Tells All? Your Dog
Researchers at Newcastle University in England are onto something big: Your dog may know lots more about how you’re feeling — and about how you’re doing generally — that anyone has heretofore believed....
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Is Your Hospital in Medicare’s Penalty Box?
Is your hospital being penalized for providing care that falls short of what Medicare thinks it should be? Measures range from nighttime noise to following basic clinical standards of care. >>...
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Kris Kristofferson’s Coolest Concert Ever
Kris Kristofferson’s career as a singer-songwriter spans nearly 50 years, and his career as an actor nearly that, so it saddened me a little to learn that he’s struggling just a bit with memory loss....
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Gold Bars Worth More Than $1.1 Million Found in Airplane Lavatory
From The Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Cleaners found a stash of 24 gold bars worth more than $1.1 million hidden in an airplane lavatory after a flight from Bangkok arrived in eastern India,...
View ArticleState Pensions — A Loophole for Lobbyists
In many places you can get a state government pension without even working for the state government. The Associated Press reports that lobbyists in at least 20 states are entitled to public pensions...
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How One Couple Scored a Suite at the Waldorf for $15.75
A suite at New York City’s famed Waldorf-Astoria for only $15.75? That’s how much Tony and Jo Fioravante of Staten Island, N.Y., paid on Jan. 12 to celebrate their 66th anniversary at the landmark...
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Mildred Loving: She Blazed a Trail for Marriage Equality
In 1964, Mildred Loving wrote a letter to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that she couldn’t have realized at the time would launch a campaign for marriage equality that continues 50 years later. In...
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Medicare Drug Benefit Saves Taxpayers Billions
Medicare‘s prescription drug benefit saves taxpayers billions of dollars by dramatically reducing hospital admissions, a new study shows. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...
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9 Fun Flashbacks From the ’64 World’s Fair
The 1964 New York World’s Fair, which opened on April 22, 1964, and ran for two six-month seasons, was a sprawling showcase of mid-century American culture and technology. Although nearly 52 million...
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Can Keeping a Hen Help You Live Longer?
Want to stay active, feel less lonely and generally be healthier? Maybe it’s time to get yourself a hen. HenPower, an experimental project based in Gateshead, England, aims to get older residents of...
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Boomer Alert: Nation’s 65+ Population to Double by 2050
We’re getting older — in a big way. New Census Bureau reports project that the nation’s 65-and-older population will nearly double in size — hitting a total of nearly 83.7 million — by 2050. By then,...
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Security Guard Killed 83-Year-Old Man With Tire Jack, Police Say
Authorities say an 83-year-old man has died from head injuries he sustained when an off-duty security guard went on a violent rampage at a Florida assisted living facility, savagely attacking residents...
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Can Age Discrimination Kill You?
Age discrimination can be hazardous to your health, a new study by researchers at Florida State University’s College of Medicine has found. What’s more, people who see themselves as targets of age...
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Students Find $40,000 in Sofa, Return It to Widow
Three college roommates who bought an old couch for $20 at a Salvation Army store in New Paltz, N.Y., had the surprise of their lives when they found $40,000 in cash hidden inside. “I almost peed,”...
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Government Recalls Bed Rails After Reported Deaths
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the voluntary recall of more than 100,000 adult bed rails that it says can pose a serious risk of entrapment, strangulation and death. When attached...
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A Boomer’s Guide to D-Day
Seventy years ago — on June 6, 1944, commonly known as D-Day — World War II took a dramatic turn with the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Allied landings — overseen by General Dwight D. Eisenhower —...
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Welcome to America’s Longevity Capital
The longevity capital of the world, as you may recently have read in the AARP Bulletin, is the Nagano region of Japan, where women can expect to live an average of 87.2 years and men an average of 80.9...
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