GO Computer - Designed for Seniors

Designed For Seniors® GO Computer
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Kristin Kopp ~ President & Founder of At Home Solutions, LLC

952-292-5801

Boomers and Social Security

By Stephen Clifton, Director
Social Security Office, Greeley.

While some baby boomers
expected to retire at one of the
traditional milestones such as age
62, the current economy is forcing
many to re-evaluate their plans.
Many are wondering if they
should work longer or how their
Social Security benefit—or their
spouse’s benefit—would be affected
if they continued working.
To help find answers, Social
Security has published a fact sheet
called When To Start Receiving
Retirement Benefits. You can read it
online at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10147.html.

As most workers know, your
choice of a retirement age can
dramatically affect your monthly
Social Security benefit amount. If
you choose to start receiving benefits
early, the monthly payments
will be reduced based on the
number of months you receive
benefits before you reach your full
retirement age.
The rate of reduction will
depend on the year you were born.
The maximum reduction at age 62
will be: 25 percent for people born
between 1947 and 1958; 30
percent for people born after 1959.
If you wait until your full retirement
age, your benefits, your
benefits will not be reduced. And if
you choose to delay retirement,
your benefit will increase up to
eight percent a year from your full
retirement age until age 70.
However, there is no additional
benefit increase after you reach age
70, even if you continue to delay
taking benefits.

Social Security also has created
several retirement planners to help
you make an informed decision. We
have an online calculator that can
provide immediate retirement benefit
estimates to help you plan for retirement.

The online Retirement
Estimator uses information from
your own earnings record and lets
you create “what if” scenarios. You
can, for example, change your “stop
work” date or expected future earnings
to create and compare different
retirement options.

Source= http://www.socialsecurity.gov/

Kristin Kopp ~ President & Founder

952-292-5801

Surprising Stroke Statistics

Nearly half of the Americans who
have a stroke are under age 65,
according to a report in the American
Journal of Occupational Therapy.

Most of their strokes are mild, and
the people are sent home to deal with
the effects on their own.

But many should receive rehabilitation therapy;
and they are not getting it, said researchers.

“If you are young and have a mild
stroke, chances are you will not
receive rehabilitation services,” said
Timothy J. Wolf at Washington
University in St. Louis where the
study was conducted.
Of the nearly 8,000 young people
involved in the study over 10 years,
52 percent said they had trouble
concentrating after a mild stroke; 42
percent said they could not perform
their jobs as well as before the
stroke.
Researchers suspect that an
increasing number of young people
are having strokes because more have
high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
diabetes and obesity.

Source = http://www.scribd.com/

Kristin Kopp ~ President & Founder

952-292-5801

A Little Exercise !

A little physical exercise is much
more effective for treating
clogged arteries than angioplasty,
said researchers at the European
Society of Cardiology.

One study showed that 90 percent
of heart patients who rode a bicycle
cured their cardiovascular problems
within a year while only 70 percent
of those who had angioplasty did so.
Walking 30 minutes five days a week
does the same. In fact, one-third of all heart
attacks and strokes in the United

States could be prevented by walking
briskly for a total of two and a half
hours a week, said researchers. Such
exercise boosts good cholesterol,
lowers bad cholesterol and makes
blood vessel walls much healthier.
But getting people to exercise?
That’s the hard part, said researchers.
Most would rather sit on a couch and,
if a problem occurs, have a quick fix
like angioplasty, which requires only
a day or less in the hospital.

Source = http://www.scribd.com/

Kristin Kopp ~ President & Founder

At Home Solutions, LLC

Conversation Strengthens Memory !

Conversation Strengthens Memory -- In a University of Michigan study, psychologist Oscar Ybarra at the U-Michigan Institute for Social Research tested a large group of people up to 96 years old. He found that just 10 minutes of conversation with a friend worked just as well as elderly activities involving brain games, like crossword puzzles to strengthen the memory. "In our study, socializing was just as effective as more traditional kinds of mental exercise in boosting memory and intellectual performance," he said. So make sure the elderly in your life have plenty of time to socialize. It not only will help with memory, but also elderly issues of depression and loneliness as well.

Current Events -- Discuss current events on TV and in the newspaper, but keep it light and on a positive note as much as possible (some seniors can be prone to depression, so heavy current events may not be appropriate). Keeping up what’s going on in the world helps seniors stay mentally involved. You can get all sorts of elderly activities involved. Ask for their opinions, and how an issue differed x-amount of years ago. My father is unable to read from vision loss. So on Tuesday and Friday evenings I selectively read the newspaper to him. I already know he gets tired of hearing about war and political scandals, so we mostly skip those. He’s able to watch the news with his infrared earphones on, so he gets most of the evening news. But he still enjoys it when I read to him. When I read about something, I make sure to ask him if they said anything on the news about this. It usually leads to very lively discussion and opinions about all sorts of other issues as well. When I watch the news on TV with him, we turn off the sound during the ads and talk about what was just said. These elderly activites are some of the highlights of his week.

Source ~ http://www.elder-one-stop.com/elderly-activities.html

Kristin Kopp, CSA ~ President/Founder

http://www.athomesolutionsllc.com/

952-292-5801

Recording Memoirs

Recording Memoirs --

Another of the meaningful senior activity ideas. When my father was in his 90s we bought him a small digital tape recorder to tape his memoirs for us. Even though he was partially blind, it was very easy to use. He could pause at any time to re-group his thoughts. He started at the earliest age he could remember, and took it one or two years at a time, mentioning as much colorful detail as he could remember. We then downloaded the material into the computer. Each segment is a “file” that can be moved around on the computer screen if you want to insert that segment into a different chronological order. Later, we thought of all sorts of things to ask him about, and he continued to tape. These segments were out of chronological order, of course. But it was very easy to move them around on the computer screen to get them in the correct order with the previous files. After being organized on the computer, the project was transferred onto a CD that could be played in a standard CD player. Everyone in the family now has this journey down memory lane right from our father.

This is one of our favorite senior activity ideas.

Source ~ http://www.elder-one-stop.com/senior-activity-ideas.html

Kristin Kopp

At Home Solutions, LLC

http://www.athomesolutionsllc.com/

952-292-5801

Disposing Old Medications

Mix medications with coffee grounds and toss them in the trash. It turns out that the common practice of flushing pills down the toilet has a harmful effect on waterways and their ecosystems. Instead, mix most expired pills with coffee grounds, cat litter, or sawdust in a zippered plastic bag and throw it out with the garbage. This will keep them away from kids and pets and prevent harm to fish and other wildlife habitats.

The exception? Highly addictive drugs, such as Percocet and OxyContin, which the Food and Drug Administration classifies as controlled substances. (Visit smarxtdisposal.net for a full list.) These should be flushed, to eliminate any chance of accidental ingestion.Another option is to participate in a medication take-back program. To find out if your area has one and which medications it accepts, contact the local waste-management office at your city hall. ―Kristin Appenbrink

Source: http://www.realsimple.com/

At Home Solutions, LLC

Kristin Kopp: President/Founder

952-292-5801

http://www.athomesolutionsllc.com/