New long-term care insurance from Mutual of Omaha includes a feature that allows for two pools of long-term care benefits, giving customers the flexibility to make important choices about their coverage. Mutual’s LTC I plan lets customers choose the simplicity of one maximum benefit for all care services combined. With Mutual’s LTC II, customers can opt for two separate maximum[Read More…]
Western Europe, as elsewhere in the industrialised world, is facing a demographic problem – falling birth rates and longer life expectancies. But the silver generation need not be a further burden to already stretched healthcare systems, EU researchers will set out to prove. Advances in medicine mean that Europe’s citizens live longer than any generation prior. Heart disease and cancer –[Read More…]
For those who want an inside glimpse into the future of U.S. housing, there’s only one thing to remember: baby boomers. With their characteristic defiance toward old age and enviable disposable income, retiring baby boomers want to stay “active,” said Richard Dugas, president and CEO of Pulte Homes, one of the nation’s largest builders of adult housing communities targeted at[Read More…]
Due to the rising demand forPositron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease,one of the nation’s leading PET service providers, Molecular ImagingCorporation, announced today the launch of a national toll free hotline, 1-888-PET-4-YOU (1-888-738-4960), to assist people seeking information about PETscans for themselves or loved ones. PET imaging can detect Alzheimer’s in thevery early stages of the disease, years[Read More…]
The quantitative relation between older and younger people will change considerably in Germany in the next few decades. As envisaged by the most recent co-ordinated population projection of the Federal Statistical Office, half of the population will be aged over 48 and one third be 60 or older in 2050. Besides, the number of inhabitants in Germany will decline in[Read More…]
Between 1996 and 2002, a higher proportion of working New Mexicans were age 45 or over and the proportion of workers who were 65 years old and over increased slightly to 2.8 percent, the U.S. Census Bureau said today. The analysis of New Mexico’s older workers is one in a series of reports based on a new Census Bureau program[Read More…]
The traditional view that older people significantly reduce shopping has been challenged by new research in the latest “How America Shops 2004” study of consumer habits. The percentage of older shoppers, ages 55 to 70, who are “heavy shoppers,” (making four or more shopping trips weekly) increased significantly from 2002 to 2004, moving up from 22 percent to 35 percent,[Read More…]
The exclusive Consumer Buying Trends Survey by Casual Living and its sister publications Furniture/Today and Home Accents Today released new data that indicate future home buying trends — most notably, the strong future of outdoor furniture and accessories. “The consumer data offered through this study provides a compelling look at who is influencing hardware industry sales,” said Rob Cappiello, industry[Read More…]
Manhattan Research (www.manhattanresearch.com), a leading healthcare marketing and information services firm, announced the findings from its latest analysis determining that the U.S. senior population is increasingly turning to the Internet for health and pharmaceutical information. In fact, the research shows that 5.5 million Seniors (age 65+) are surfing the net for health information and there are an additional 41.5 million[Read More…]
Most seniors with Medicare can get a discount drug card to help pay for prescriptions. ; But how much are theysaving? ; An ongoing study commissioned by the Healthcare Leadership Council is trying to find out. ; ; ; Findings indicate seniors — on average — save more than twenty percent at the pharmacy with a discount card. People with[Read More…]
