Medicare Advantage is cheaper for a reason — beware
“There is no clear-cut right or wrong choice. The key is to make an informed choice,” writes Carla Fried. I remember feeling absolutely overwhelmed by having to make the choice when signing up for Medicare (in the U.S.). Here’s some information to help you make an informed choice.
Before signing up for Medicare I took an explanatory class at the local community college. It offered the necessary basic information, including definitions of key terms, to help me understand everything else. But choosing appropriate plans was still an enormous project. I recommend that you look for some classes or workshops at a community college or community center near you and that you take full advantage of your 6-month sign-up period.
How the TV Dinner Revolutionized American Life
I wouldn’t touch one of these now, but I do enjoy reading the history of items like this, which “revolutionized middle-class life in the mid-20th century–especially the lives of the women who were expected to put dinner on the table.”
Can you reduce your Alzheimer’s risk with diet and behavior? It’s not that simple
As with all articles of this type, digest the information but be sure to consult other sources as well, especially your own health-care providers.
‘Vax’ is Oxford English Dictionary publisher’s 2021 Word of the Year
Last week we had Merriam-Webster’s new additions to its dictionary. This month we get the story on the Oxford English Dictionary.
A woman convinced her husband that he had Alzheimer’s. Police say she stole $600,000 from him over time.
I sure hate to see reports of incidents like this, but it’s probably good for us, as well as families and caregivers, to be aware of how this can happen.
Burn, baby, burn: the new science of metabolism
Attach the same caveat—“be sure to consult other sources as well, especially your own health-care providers”—to this as to the previous article about diet. In fact, attach the caveat to the article below as well.
This is an informative article about how science’s understanding of how metabolism works is evolving, including research published this summer that challenges previously accepted wisdom about how aging affects metabolism.
How to maintain a healthy brain
Kailas Roberts, an Australian psychiatrist and specialist in brain health, has some advice on not only how to avoid dementia, but also “optimising brain function throughout your lifespan.”
Richard M. Ohmann, 90, Dies; Brought Radical Politics to College English
“Inspired by the antiwar movement of the 1960s, he helped transform humanities by making room for subjects like women’s studies and Marxist criticism.”
In December 1968 Richard M. Ohmann orchestrated the passage of antiwar resolutions at the annual conference of the Modern Language Association. “ The very notion that a scholarly organization should take a stand on nonacademic issues was practically unheard-of.”
Ohmann was ahead of his time with insights that are in the news today:
starting in the 1970s, Dr. Ohmann turned his gaze inward, writing a series of books exposing what he saw as the complicity of higher education, and in particular the study of English literature, in the perpetuation of class, gender and racial hierarchies.
© 2021 by Mary Daniels Brown
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