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Everything You Want to Know About Medicare: A Q&A Guide 100 Questions & Answers About Medicare For Dummies is a focused and accurate collection of easy-to-read answers to your most pressing Medicare questions. The book empowers you to make the best healthcare decisions you can as you navigate the occasionally complex details of the Medicare program.
Everything You Want to Know About Social Security: A Q&A Guide 100 Questions & Answers About Social Security For Dummies is a clear and straightforward compilation of answers to your most important Social Security questions. The book offers you all the info you need to make the best financial and lifestyle decisions you can as you make your way around the often complicated details of the Social Security program.
Get inspired — and prepared — for your best life at 50+Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball—whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to improve your life and show you how to get there.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-22-2024
Take this opportunity to explore new opportunities and make the most of the decades ahead. Keep your finances, your living arrangements, and, most importantly, your health in peak performance.To get started, you may be interested in finding a new job, getting a handle on your finances, and trying your hand at yoga.
Article / Updated 08-03-2023
Hearing loss is about clarity not volume. Most people think of hearing loss as simply turning down the volume on a TV, which makes all sounds quieter. But hearing loss is more like turning down the volume on only specific frequencies or pitches of sound so while some sounds are quieter others are just as loud.
Article / Updated 06-07-2023
As prices climb for nearly everything, from food to gas to health care and beyond, what can you do to spend less and save more? One way to save is to cut back on utility costs. In the winter, for instance, keep cold air outside and warm air inside by caulking and weather-stripping doors and windows. Keep your fireplace flue tightly closed.
Get smart and start saving—without sacrificing the things you loveWith high prices for everything from food to gas, how can you make ends meet—and still have enough for the things you love? 500 Great Ways to Save For Dummies is packed with creative ideas for cutting costs in small and big ways, in dozens of categories, ranging from groceries and healthcare to education, travel, and major purchases.
Article / Updated 03-22-2023
Copyright © 2020 AARP. Selecting the right time to begin Social Security benefits is a personal matter. Only you know what makes sense for your family. But you should keep in mind some key points when you make this critical choice:
Make sure that you know when you qualify for full benefits, but remember, you have broad discretion about when to claim.
Article / Updated 03-22-2023
Copyright © 2020 by AARP. All rights reserved.Something about Social Security stirs the popular imagination. Rumors and phony stories have attached themselves to the program from the start. Sometimes you can identify the grain of truth that sprouts into a tall tale. Other times you can’t.Before Social Security got off the ground in the 1930s, newspapers in the Hearst chain spread the story that people would have to wear dog tags stamped with their Social Security numbers.
Article / Updated 01-26-2023
Modern hearing aids are sleek, and many styles are nearly invisible. This is a far cry from early hearing aids that required body-worn accessories (to visualize that, imagine something like the old Discman CD player worn on your belt with wires attached to headphones).It’s also a far cry from the mental image many people have when they picture hearing aids as large and bulky pieces of plastic that stick out from behind the ear connected to huge earpieces sitting in your ear canal.
