Well, looks like everyone is working to get on the aging population bandwagon.
Even the WHO (Who is the WHO exactly anyway?) is working on policies for active aging and making cities more “age friendly. Here’s a few excerpts from the study:
Active ageing policy is defined as “optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age.â€
yep – that’s logical.
The active ageing approach is grounded in the UN-recognized principles of independence, participation, dignity, care and self-fulfilment.
The UN is involved?
It acknowledges the importance of gender, earlier life experiences, and culture on how individuals age. It takes into account the biological, psychological, behavioural, economic, social and environmental factors that operate over the course of a person’s life to determine health and well-being in later years.
What’s all that suppose to mean anyway?
Some times these involved studies read more like things from people who just like to hear themselves talk rather than anything useful. What do you think?
You can see the whole WHO Report here if your interested.
There’s Driving Miss Daisy as well as Miss Daisy driving herself out there – and it’s getting trickier to navigate the roads each year.
Did you know that there are more people 70+ driving today than ever?
Of course you did because there are more of us than ever period….so it is logical that more of us a driving.
I saw a stat that while 1 in 10 Americans are 70+ today – 1 in 5 will be in 2040. Interesting but not that relevant to me – unless I come back reincarnated that is! But fact of the matter is – it’s tougher to drive safe as you grow older.
I know my reflexes are slower but what really gets me is night vision. Can’t see a dang thing sometimes.
Here’s a list of some things to watch out for that can tell you if its getting times to give up the keys or at least limit the amount of driving you do:
- More dents and scratches on the car than before. Make a count now and check next month – did you have some more? Yes? Better think about it.
- Tickets or warnings. At our age we are old enough to know better. There is absolutely no reason to be pulled over – so if you are…you gotta think about it.
- Getting lost around town. Hey – the memory is going for many of us – and if we get lost in our own neighborhood for safety sake we have to take a hard look at that fact.
- Getting honked at a lot? Probably not your looks. Again a warning sign.
Got any other tips or ideas for us? Let me know!
I was reading an article in a home guide paper.
A real estate agent was writing about how home prices must come down.
One comment was that home-owner related expenses rose faster than income. The article then says that is a good explanation why many people making higher incomes than ever are unable to afford their homes. She goes on to say that how California collected more income in recent years and now is on the brink of bankruptcy.
She then asks, could it be that state government invented loan modification?
I have a couple of questions for her. Why did you sell  high price homes to people who could not afford them? Did you or your brokers explain to these folks what loan modification really means. My guess that the answer to these questions would be no.
After all it’s all about money. I have one more question for you. Are you now on the brink of bankruptcy? May be some folks are hoping so. As it is often said, what goes around comes around.
Hormone replacement therapy and the risk of cancer and heart disease have been in the news a lot lately.
I was and still am a participant in the Women’s Health Initiative study. I have not taken hormone replacement since the study saw an increase in heart disease and breast cancer in women taking this therapy. I fill out a yearly health report for tracking
Purposes. Women on the hormones doubled their risk of breast cancer. Hormone therapy has dropped 70% since the study revealed the risk of breast cancer and heart disease.
We are now beginning to see a decline in breast cancer for the first time in years. Yet, I read Hormone therapy remains a ”good health care choice to relieve moderate to severe menopausal symptoms” says a statement from Wyeth, which made the pills   in the study. I sometimes wonder about pharmaceutical companies and the FDA
