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Drowsy Driving Prevention Week

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week is a far-reaching public awareness campaign developed to educate young drivers, their parents and others about drowsy driving and its prevention. The campaign aims to put drowsy driving in the headlights of…

Healthy Living

November is Diabetes Month

Whether you’ve been newly diagnosed, have been fighting against type 1 or type 2 diabetes for a while, or are helping a loved one, the American Diabetes Association is available to help you. Start gaining a deeper understanding of how you…

Healthy Living, Safety

November Safety Checklist

November brings the start of the holiday season. With the holidays right around the corner, SafeWise provides you with a November Safety Checklist. According to SafeWise, "The holidays have arrived and with them come guests. Many, many…

Safety

Prevention Tips for Leading Cause of Senior Injuries: Falls

The most common source of fatal and non-fatal injuries to seniors is slips, trips, and falls. An estimated 2.8 million seniors in the U.S. are treated in emergency rooms every year for fall-related injuries, and 27,000 die annually from…

Safety

Halloween Safety On and Off the Road

Kids love the magic of Halloween: Trick-or-treating, classroom parties and trips to a neighborhood haunted house. But for moms and dads, often there is a fine line between Halloween fun and safety concerns, especially when it comes to road…

Safety

Halloween Safety

Halloween is right around the corner. Let's all make sure we keep kids safe while they are enjoying the Halloween festivities.

Health Insurance

Most Americans Lack Disability Insurance Or Means To Financially Survive A Long-Term Disability

According to a Cigna survey, about 50% of workers like their jobs, and 10% would continue working the same job even if they had enough money to never work again. However, the survey also found that most workers did not have solid…

Healthy Living, Safety

October is SIDS Awareness Month

October is #SIDSAwarenessMonth. Help raise awareness of what a safe infant sleep environment looks like. Remember, babies sleep safest on their backs! What Does A Safe Sleep Environment Look Like? You can reduce your baby’s risk…

Health Insurance, Healthy Living

National Down Syndrome Awareness Month

October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. What is Down Syndrome? According to the National Down Syndrome Society, in every cell in the human body there is a nucleus, where genetic material is stored in genes. Genes carry…

Home, Property Insurance

Your Fall Home Maintenance Checklist

Fall is here and you should use the time to enjoy the cool weather outdoors and take care of housekeeping chores before winter arrives. You should tackle any needed maintenance before the weather gets too cold and, if you live in a cold-weather…

Health Insurance, Healthy Living

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Find out more about breast cancer from the American Cancer Society and get your questions answered. Breast Cancer Whether you or a loved one are worried about developing breast cancer,…

Medicare

Priority Health Open Enrollment Dates

Priority Health Open Enrollment dates are here! Meetings are available at various locations starting on October 16th and ending on December 3, 2019. Come to one of our informational meetings where you can get your questions answered as well…

Auto, Safety

Seat Belts Save Thousands of Lives Per Year

Buckle up. The life you save may be your own. Thanks to mandatory seat belt laws in the vast majority of jurisdictions, drivers and passengers are more likely to wear seatbelts now than they ever have been. In 2000, drivers…

Healthy Living

Burnout: Facing the damage of ‘chronic workplace stress’

Published Friday 2 August 2019 By Maria Cohut Fact checked by Jasmin Collier In a world where it seems as though the pressure to perform is always on, more and more people are admitting to burnout at work. What is this phenomenon,…

Healthy Living

This sleep disorder puts people at ‘very high risk’ of Parkinson’s

Published Wednesday 6 March 2019 By Maria Cohut Fact checked by Isabel Godfrey Research has linked a particular sleep disorder called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. What characterizes…

Medicare

2019-2020 Medicare Informational Meetings

Safety

How Cybercrooks Can Hack Your Online Bank Accounts

If you think your checkbook and paper statements keep you safe, think again by Marc Saltzman, AARP, September 3, 2019 | Comments: 0 DAVID J. GREEN - LIFESTYLE THEMES / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO You log into your banking site…

Healthy Living

Should I Be Screened For Prostate Cancer?

September 15 - 21 is Prostate Cancer Awareness Week. Every Man Should Know about Prostate Cancer Screening Should I or shouldn’t I? That’s the question that men face when it comes to being screened for prostate cancer.…

Healthy Living

Be Happy … It’s Never Too Late To Choose Happiness

The following article is excerpted from Healthy Aging® Magazine. To read more like it, subscribe to Healthy Aging® Magazine, the lifestyle magazine that is all about following your passion and what you can do rather than what you can’t. By…

Healthy Living

10 Tips For September Is Healthy Aging® Month

Think it’s too late to “reinvent” yourself? Think again. According to Carolyn Worthington, editor-in-chief of Healthy Aging® Magazine and executive director of Healthy Aging®, “it’s never too late to find a new career,…

Healthy Living

Promote National Suicide Prevention Month

We can all help prevent suicide. Every year, the Lifeline and other mental health organizations and individuals across the U.S. and around the world raise awareness of suicide prevention during September, National Suicide Prevention…

Healthy Living

September is Healthy Aging® Month!

Think it’s too late to “re-invent” yourself? Think again. According to Carolyn Worthington, editor-in-chief of Healthy Aging® Magazine and executive director of Healthy Aging®, it’s never too late to find…

Life Insurance

2019 Insurance Barometer Study: Nearly Half of Americans More Likely to Buy Simplified Underwritten Life Insurance

Life Happens and LIMRA announce results from its ninth annual consumer study Arlington, Va., and Windsor, Conn., April 1, 2019 – Almost half of Americans (47 percent) say they are more likely to buy life insurance using simplified…

Healthy Living

Your Balance and Mobility After 50

How can I stay active and maintain my muscle mass? by Mike Zimmerman, with Jessica Migala, AARP, April 19, 2019 GETTY IMAGES Will my body get weaker as I age? That's up to you; you have control…