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Understanding Standard Medicare Plan Costs

Cost is just one of a number of factors to consider when evaluating your Medicare options. To determine your total costs when selecting a plan, it’s important to include your Medicare premiums, supplemental premiums, copays, deductible, coinsurance and... Read more

How to Prevent Falls: It’s Not What You Think

It’s a natural human reaction, to look at our environment and try to remove the hazards. We do it with our children: we put rails on their beds when they’re little, make them wear shoes when the ground could injure them, worry about broken glass. ... Read more

Death Café

A Death Café is a scheduled non-profit get-together, usually of strangers, for the purpose of talkingabout death over food and drink, initially tea and cake. Today however, there are Death and DyingDinner Parties or Cocktail Parties and other get togeth... Read more

Different Types of Hearing Tests and Procedures

The first major step toward identifying and managing hearing loss is to have your hearing tested by an audiologist. Have you ever wondered what all that entails? Audiology is so much more than those simple screenings you had back in grade sc... Read more

What’s in a Dementia Diagnosis: 6 domains of cognition

All of these can be perceived as ‘deficits’ but they can also be perceived as changes. Using this viewpoint, there is room for the difficulty associated with these changes to be challenging, yet fruitful. Deficits call to be fixed. Changes call to be... Read more