Retirement

As people age, the hope is that their lives become easier. Retirement is anxiously awaited as a time to relax. The “Golden Years” can be the best of times in life, but it isn’t without concerns that are specific to the elderly.

• HEALTH CARE

Aging often brings a need for more medical care that negatively affect the retirement budget

• DISEASE

Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Cataracts, Muscle Degeneration and Osteoporosis and other conditions that threaten day-to-day functions

• PHYSICAL AGING

Aging causes a slowing of movement and reaction time; sight decline weaker bones.

The older a person becomes the greater the need for regular exercise

• PHYSICAL ASSISTANCE

Shopping, doctor appointments, house cleaning all become more difficult, where and how do you find good help?

• FINANCIAL SECURITY

The rising cost for everything on affixed income, will it last?

• LONLINESS

Loss of friends through death, disease, and relocation creates a sense of being alone, very crucial for time with family, activities, socializing and helping to provide a means to make new friends

• FINANCIAL PREDATORS

Many unscrupulous people preying on the elderly.  Important to never give any personal financial information to anyone over the phone.

• ABUSE AND NEGLECT

Facilities are understaffed and frustration can lead to neglect or abuse, the same can be said of a family caregiver

• TRANSPORTATION

Decline in vision and reaction time can, and often does, lead to unsafe driving  

Identifying public transportation, senior center transportation, etc. is a very good alternative

Many businesses now have delivery services

• CHANGES IN SOCIETY

Technology may very well be the biggest social hurdle for seniors

Many local libraries have computers and offer training