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Making Your Golden Years Golden Tips

Dr. Eva Mor, Author of Making the Golden Years Golden
         As one of America’s baby boomers, I am acutely aware of how little time we spend preparing for our retirement.  We tend to spend much more time planning our vacations than our retirement. In my book Making the Golden Years Golden I provide the reader [...]

PREVENTION OF ELDER ABUSE

 Eva Mor PhD
Author of “Making the Golden Years Golden”
The numbers reflecting incidents of abuse in the senior population vary depending on the source that is reporting them. Definitions of what constitutes as “abuse” are also diverse: some sources define elder abuse as only physical abuse, while other sources include emotional abuse, sexual abuse and [...]

DIRECTING CARE FROM A DISTANCE

Real Cases Real Solutions
Dr. Eva Mor author of “Making the Golden Years Golden”
Just like millions of other baby boomers, my friend Judy lives quite a distance from her parents. She has lived far away from them since she completed graduate school and started her professional career. During regular visits to her parents, things seemed well, [...]

Avoid Becoming A Statistic In The Scamming Game

By BabyBoomers.com contributor Eva Mor, PhD, author of Making the Golden Years Golden
Last year over 60 billion dollars were lost to the scamming of Americans of all ages. 35% of them were seniors, according to the AARP, though in all likelihood the numbers are higher. Many of the elderly do not realize that they were scammed, [...]

Dental Care, America’s Unspoken Health Crisis (Pt 3) Navigating the Dental Tourism Jungle

And, dare we say it, dental tourism is an option that may make treatment more fun than a white-knuckled drive to the dentist’s office at lunchtime.It’s not for everyone, but if you do your homework, this may be a chance to combine the work you’ve been delaying with a great vacation.

Dental Care, America’s Unspoken Health Crisis (Pt 2): How baby boomers can avoid going bust

“Every year we bring to NYU 110 dentists from 33 countries, train them in advanced procedures, and then they go home. There is no reason to assume the quality of care is any lower overseas.” Dr. Stewart Hirsch, associate dean of New York University College of Dentistry

Baby Boomer: Before you start a business. Ask (yourself) about yourself!

I am a Baby Boomer, and businessperson dedicated to helping others  get quality dental care and preserve their savings by traveling to Panama (www,panamdentaltours.com).  As a a SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) counselor, I volunteer to help people in small business to achieve their goals.
Entrepreneurs will find the following to be most useful:
“Knowing yourself [...]

Will Baby Boomers ever allow themselves to be called Seniors?

When will Boomers be called Seniors? Probably never if they have their way.
Calling someone a Boomer is a polite way of avoiding the fact that they are aging. One of the most defining traits of the generation born between 1946 and 1964 may be the inability to acknowledge that they may actually be getting [...]

Great Love, Low Risk, High Reward

Many baby boomers spent their first career living out the dreams of those they worked for. We created success for others while putting ours off until later. Well, later has just shown up and now it is time for us to establish our own definition of success and follow after our dreams.

Dentistry: America’s Unspoken Health Crisis (Pt 1)

How You Can Avoid Paying Through the Mouth, Part 1

Dentistry in America
The cost of dental care has been rising, no question about that.  If you have been to the dentist recently and needed any major work, the estimates for procedures from root canals to implants can leave you more numb than that last shot of [...]