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Medicare Fraud. How We Can Fight it.

Today we bring you a blog post from guest blogger and NJFA friend Charles Clarkson, Project Director of the Senior Medicare Patrol of New Jersey. By Charles Clarkson, Project Director, Senior Medicare Patrol of NJ   Medicare fraud is estimated to cost American taxpayers $60 billion a year, monies that are siphoned off and are […]

The 2020 Census and You

By Mason Crane-Bolton   2020 may seem like a long way off for many of us, but the 2020 census is just around the corner…and it’s a big deal. Capital “B,” capital, “D.”   What is the Census? Here is a brief background on the Census (and why it’s important to New Jersey) according to […]

How to Age Well: Planning Your Path, Part 3: Money and Retirement

By Mason Crane-Bolton Are you ready for your financial future? | Photo by Mathieu Turle via unsplash.com   There is no way to get aging “right”…   …But it does help to plan. Something is happening each and every day across New Jersey. Across the United States. Across the entirety of the planet. We are […]

How to Age Well: Planning Your Path, Part 2: Home, Health, and “After I’m Gone…”

By Mason Crane-Bolton Have you planned for future health and home changes? | Photo via pexels.com   There is no way to get aging “right”…   …But it does help to plan. Something is happening each and every day across New Jersey. Across the United States. Across the entirety of the planet. We are all […]

How to Age Well: Planning Your Path, Part 1: Mobility and Transportation

By Mason Crane-Bolton   There is no way to get aging “right”…But it does help to plan.   Something is happening each and every day across New Jersey. Across the United States. Across the entirety of the planet. We are all getting older.   Like it or not, each and every one of us is […]

Scams and Tech, Part 1: The En Masse Scams

By Mason Crane-Bolton We know about tech. We know about scams—scams where older adults are often the target. But what do we know about how tech and scams overlap? Wherever you live and however tech-savvy you consider yourself, it’s more than likely you encounter scams on an almost daily basis. Many of these scams may […]

Detour the Dumpster‚ A Better Approach to Overwhelming Clutter

By Guest Bloggers Carolyn Quinn and Jaime Angelini The people we meet who have “too much stuff” won’t ever be followed by a camera crew that captures shots of perilous, towering stacks of papers, bins or boxes. There will never be split screen comparisons of their house or apartment before and after workers and family […]

A New Year, a New Start – Time to Declutter!

by Mason Crane-Bolton It‚Äôs a new year and that means a new start! After all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season (and the inevitable clutter for so many of us), now is the perfect time to do a bit of ‚Äúspring‚Äù cleaning. We have some excellent tips for a good cleaning and de-cluttering, […]

Who is a Caregiver?

As we welcome November we also welcome National Caregivers Month. But, while it can be easy to recognize the month, it‚Äôs not always easy to recognize a caregiver. Caregivers range from the professional and paid to full-time non-professional caregivers to informal caregiving on a part-time basis. According to the Mayo Clinic, ‚ÄúAbout 1 in 3 […]

Aging Greatness: Great Achievements by Older Adults!

As a culture we tend to praise accomplishments as if there were an age limit. We like to focus on achievements made by people under a ‚Äúcertain age‚Äù as if we think ‚ÄúThe younger, the better!‚Äù But achievements, major accomplishments, even fame and fortune, don‚Äôt have a cut-off age. There‚Äôs nothing wrong with celebrating accomplishments […]