Deal with empty store shelves

#Middlebury #Seniors There’s been a shift in food availability across the country. If your area is just now getting hit with empty store shelves, this concept is shocking and ... Continue Reading →

Food costs continue to rise

#Middlebury #Seniors #FoodPrices It’s not over yet. Rising food prices, that is. The best guess of experts is that food prices are likely to rise 5% in the first half of 2022. ... Continue Reading →

Travel is complicated right now

#Middlebury #Seniors My neighbor still thinks she’ll be going on a cruise to a foreign country in the spring. She calls her travel agent every few weeks to ask if the cruise is ... Continue Reading →

Is telehealth all it’s cracked up to be?

#Middlebury #Seniors Medicare started paying for telehealth medical visits last year and will continue through the end of 2023. With telehealth, we sit in our homes and talk to our ... Continue Reading →

Look out for No. 1

#Middlebury #Seniors Depending on where you live, you might be required to delay surgery because the hospital is full of COVID patients. That’s the news that’s spreading ... Continue Reading →

Lend a helping hand

#Middlebury #Seniors I’ve been looking at 2022, hoping to find some value in my time and money in this chaotic world we find ourselves in, a chaos that doesn’t show any ... Continue Reading →

Blood-pressure goal: How low should it go?

#Middlebury #Health DEAR DR. ROACH: My sister, 75, is taking only two drugs for the past three years, and they are both for high blood pressure. Now she finds that her blood pressure ... Continue Reading →

AARP survey: We want to grow older at home

#Middlebury #Seniors We want to stay home as we age. That much is clear from a recent survey by AARP. The 70-question survey touched on all types of topics about home and community ... Continue Reading →

Pricey new drug means higher Part B premiums

#Middlebury #Seniors The Medicare Part B monthly premium is going up in 2022 by $21.60, one of the biggest increases ever. One reason for the increase, they say, is the massive cost ... Continue Reading →

Christmas dinner moves indoors

#Middlebury #Seniors Those in power at the senior center have now decreed that we will have the annual Christmas dinner indoors instead of out in the parking lot. This flash of brilliance ... Continue Reading →