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The Best Times To Get A Reverse Mortgage
Let’s examine a few of the best times to consider getting a reverse mortgage. When you don’t have enough income to pay your bills Many seniors have significant equity in their homes after paying down their mortgage over time, especially if home values have increased. Unfortunately, many of these same seniors struggle to meet monthly…
Read More‘Staying Regular’ Is Good for Good Health
Being regular is good for you, a new study shows. Predictable bowel movements could be tied to your long-term health, allowing your body to absorb essential nutrients without producing harmful organ-damaging toxins, researchers found. The “Goldilocks zone” of bowel movement frequency, once or twice a day, is associated with better health, results show. That gives…
Read MoreWalking May Be the Best Medicine for Low Back Pain
Simply walking may be the best ‘medicine’ for low back pain. The condition, which impacts about 800 million people worldwide, is a leading cause of disability and reduced quality of life. Exercise and education are commonly prescribed, but researchers say cost is sometimes a roadblock for patients. In a new study, they looked at whether…
Read MoreLike U.S. population, the workforce is aging faster
The share of older workers in the U.S. has grown significantly since the turn of the century, with 29.5% of workers in 2023 at least 65 years old, compared to 23% in 2000, according to a new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). This occurred as labor force participation by older Americans between…
Read MoreStudy Urges Seniors to Get Moving to Live Longer
Can you tell how long you’ll live? For seniors, how fit you are may offer a clearer forecast of life span than traditional markers such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and smoking, a new study suggests. It included more than 6,500 people, age 70 and older, who had an exercise stress test between…
Read MoreSeafood in Pregnancy: To Eat or Not to Eat?
Pregnant women hear a lot of “Do this” and “Don’t do that” advice about what is safe to eat. But one recommendation that’s particularly important involves seafood: During pregnancy, women need to eat enough seafood to gain the health benefits, but not so much to raise the risk of some significant consequences. They also need…
Read MoreThe No. 1 Thing People With Fat Savings Accounts Scrimp on That You Likely Don’t
Housing may be the key to bigger savings. Earlier this week, a Reddit post — from a 48-year-old woman claiming to be a millionaire despite having only low-paying jobs until about age 30 — went viral, and in it she details some extreme frugality. She says she saves tea bags so she can make multiple…
Read MoreSmall Study Suggests Ozempic Relative May Slow Parkinson’s
Could a medication similar to the blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy slow the ravages of Parkinson’s disease? A new, small study suggests it could: Over the course of a year, a group of French researchers followed 156 people with early Parkinson’s who were randomly given lixisenatide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist made by Sanofi, or…
Read MoreAre reverse mortgages the most underutilized retirement tool?
Reverse mortgage use as part of a broader financial plan “is really the intention in the financial planning space,” Pfau told the outlet. While reverse mortgage customers benefit greatly from low rates, the current high-rate environment doesn’t fully cancel out their potential use as a planning tool, he explained. “It’s all about the sequence-of-returns risk…
Read MoreU.S. News: 6 Steps For Those Starting Retirement With No Savings
For new retirees who begin their non-working lives without the advantage of having savings, a new article from U.S. News and World Report offers up six potential steps people in that situation can take in order to enhance their financial standing in their retirement years. Among the included recommendations is the employment of the home…
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