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HELP LINE: Help is only help if it’s wanted and understood
I JUST STUMBLED across something I presented almost exactly 10 years ago (please don’t be concerned, as I…
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HELP LINE: Don’t sign blank forms
I SUPPOSE YOU’VE heard that the Social Security/Supplemental Security Income [SSI] COLA for 2019 will be 2.8 percent,…
Life
HELP LINE: Time for some this-and-that information
I THINK THAT today is a good day for a bit of this-and-that, so let’s jump right into…
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HELP LINE: Part D open enrollment is upon us again
AS IS OFTEN the case in Western Washington, the whole is equal to the sum of its parts.
Life
HELP LINE: What to expect with the new Medicare cards
WE’VE BEEN HERE before, but I see that with the growing level of noise about new Medicare cards…
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HELP LINE: Not knowing is worse than knowing a diagnosis
LAST WEEK, BECAUSE the conversation about Alzheimer’s came up (because I brought it up), we started working through…
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HELP LINE: Don’t forget the warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease
LAST WEEK I presented, verbatim, the Alzheimer’s Associations’ “Principles for a Dignified Diagnosis” because I thought it was…
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HELP LINE: Learn how to treat those with Alzheimer’s’s disease
SOMETIMES YOU JUST come across something important.
Life
HELP LINE: ‘Mom won’t make it’ if Congress doesn’t act
A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I did a column on Social Security.
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HELP LINE: Now is the best time of my life
READY TO THINK about something completely different?
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HELP LINE: What will happen ‘if Congress does not act’?
AS NEAR AS I can tell, without doing a lot of extensive research that I don’t have the…
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HELP LINE: The nuances of insurance are complicated
BASED ON A lot of emails that I’ve received from a lot of you, there are a lot…
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HELP LINE: If behavior changes happen, always call the doctor
THE FACT IS that it’s pretty easy for me to sit in front of a keyboard and pontificate…
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HELP LINE: To prevent falls, keep moving your body
THE INSIGHTFUL, DISCERNING and piercingly intelligent among us, defined by the fact that they’ve been following this column…
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HELP LINE: Remember to be careful on your way to happiness
IT DOESN’T FEEL like a real intense day, does it?