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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: Why is the nurse’s visit for home healthcare only 20 minutes once a week ?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Toni: My mother, Doris, had a heart attack in February and was in the hospital for over a week, with a short stay in a skilled nursing facility until she regained her strength. She needed additional care at home, and her cardiologist ordered ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Travel Trending with Kathy Witt: Exploring Japan aboard Holland America’s Volendam]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stepping aboard Holland America Line’s Volendam in Taipei, Taiwan,
felt less like joining a cruise and more like slipping into a story
already in motion. The 2026 Grand World Voyage had been underway for
weeks by the time I arrived in early ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: The Good Old Days at a Social Security Office Were Not Necessarily So!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes find myself waxing nostalgic about the "good old days" of
working for the Social Security Administration. Even though when I
started working for the SSA in 1973, the agency was already almost 40
years old, I still think of that time ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4090489</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Streets not ready for the Bay Area’s fast growing population — seniors]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Melissa Quilter has quit crossing the
intersection of The Alameda and Marin Avenue in Berkeley when she’s
walking her dog.

“My dog is older. I’m older. We don’t take risks anymore,”
said Quilter, 66, who has been ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The help that many older Americans need most]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent Monday, Sandy Guzman, a community health worker in rural
Oregon, drove to visit a patient in her 60s in a small city called The
Dalles.

The patient lived alone, and “really struggles with social
isolation,” Guzman said. After a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4089531</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hand-stitched memory bears help grieving maker and recipients]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — Shirley Whitlinger knows all too well the profound,
existential loneliness that follows a spouse’s death.

When David, her husband of 50 years, died from prostate cancer in
2021, after two years of chemotherapy and trials at ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4090488</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump touts 'golden age' for seniors in the friendly territory of The Villages]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE VILLAGES, Fla. — President Donald Trump came to the friendly
territory of Florida’s retirement haven Friday for his first public
event since an alleged assassination attempt against him, touting tax
cuts for seniors and parading Dr. Phil ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4086634</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hand-stitched memory bears help grieving maker and recipients]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — Shirley Whitlinger knows all too well the profound,
existential loneliness that follows a spouse’s death.

When David, her husband of 50 years, died from prostate cancer in
2021, after two years of chemotherapy and trials at ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4086101</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: Why am I being charged an extra $565 a month to enroll in Medicare?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toni, I am not sure if I have enrolled in Medicare the right way because I am being charged a Medicare premium of $768 a month beginning June 1 since I turn 65 on June 14. My friend Sue told me that I am being overcharged because she is paying $...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tonisays/s-4084188</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Identity Theft's Usually Not a Social Security Issue]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: My purse was stolen and now I worry that someone might be using my
Social Security number. I called the Social Security office and was told
to contact credit reporting agencies and possibly the police. And they
gave me some website to look up. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4084229</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[105-year-old Chicago woman finds herself on century-old Irish census: ‘Those years went by so fast’]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — One hundred years ago, a few thousand miles away across
the Atlantic, a quiet moment in history rippled across northwestern
Europe.

The day was April 18, 1926. Ireland was coming off centuries of
British rule and a bloody civil war ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4084228</link>
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    <pubDate>Apr/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[105-year-old Chicago woman finds herself on century-old Irish census: 'Those years went by so fast']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — One hundred years ago, a few thousand miles away across
the Atlantic, a quiet moment in history rippled across northwestern
Europe.

The day was April 18, 1926. Ireland was coming off centuries of
British rule and a bloody civil war ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4083525</link>
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    <pubDate>Apr/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: Help, what do I do about changes in income?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Toni, My wife, Joyce, who is not yet 65, was released from her job in February and our joint income has changed because she is no longer earning $230,000 per year. My Social Security check for 2026 is $4,000 monthly. I began taking my ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tonisays/s-4077399</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Lawyers and Social Security Disability]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: You have written past columns in which you said it is very difficult
to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. I think just the
opposite is true. It is so easy to get on the government disability
dole. After all, you see so many ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4077438</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[For many patients leaving the ICU, the struggle has only just begun]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The accident happened in Pittsburgh on Nov. 16. Joseph Masterson, a
lawyer who was just days from retiring at age 63, suffered cardiac
arrest while driving, plowed into a guardrail, and lost
consciousness.

Other drivers stopped, broke the car ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4077437</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[For many patients leaving the ICU, the struggle has only just begun]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The accident happened in Pittsburgh on Nov. 16. Joseph Masterson, a
lawyer who was just days from retiring at age 63, suffered cardiac
arrest while driving, plowed into a guardrail, and lost
consciousness.

Other drivers stopped, broke the car ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4076284</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: How do I disenroll from Medicare?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Toni, I need your help! I made a big mistake and enrolled in Medicare when I turned 65 in January due to the marketing phone calls I received, telling me it was time to. My company’s HR department advised me to disenroll from Medicare ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tonisays/s-4070520</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: An Old and Whacky Social Security Rant]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader shared with me an email he got from an acquaintance. It is a
Social Security screed that is filled with half-baked ideas,
exaggerations and outright lies. The reader said he had never heard of
these allegations before. But I pointed out ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4070561</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mortgages for retirees and older adults]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We often think of homebuyers as young people — newlyweds and
couples with small children — but baby boomers actually make up the
majority of those buying a home in the U.S. Still, according to recent
studies, older adults face higher rejection...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4070560</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is it bad to spoil my grandchildren?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Showering your grandchildren with gifts and treats comes
from a place of love and excitement, but what impact could this type of
spoiling have in the long term?

We spoke to Counselling Directory member Annabelle Hird, a
BACP-registered...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4070559</link>
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    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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