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Community cooperation leads to Senior Activity Center of Sebastian
The new Senior Activity Center of Sebastian is an example of how a community can come together with a common sense of purpose to succeed.
Treasure Coast Palm
Elderly Drivers: Keys to Safety
What must be emphasized in all this is that the challenges of elder driving aren't just for individuals or families, they are community-wide.
Lakeland Ledger
End of the road
Ask a senior citizen how it feels to permanently surrender one’s car keys, and you’ll likely get a look of resentment, if not despair.
Panama City News Herald
Seniors must be aware of scam artists
Be wary. Don’t let the bums get to you.
Punta Gorda Herald
End of the road
Ask a senior citizen how it feels to permanently surrender one's car keys, and you'll likely get a look of resentment, if not despair.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Romney's lean, mean Medicaid plans for nursing home residents
He would convert the health care program for the poor, disabled and elderly into a block grant to the states and sharply reduce funding over time.
Tampa Bay Times
Elderly drivers: Impaired abilities a real concern
Is there a point when people get too old to drive a car and, if so, what is that age?
Citrus County Chronicle
Elderly drivers' impaired abilities a real concern
Is there a point when people get too old to drive a car and, if so, what is that age?
Citrus County Chronicle
Grimm: Florida’s way: Nursing home profits trump sick kids’ special needs
If these medically fragile children expect to be treated as well as nursing home operators, well, let them hire themselves a lobbyist.
Miami Herald
Maxwell: Health-care, hospice fraud costs us all
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it is investigating allegations of overbilling Medicare at Hospice of the Comforter.
Orlando Sentinel
Florida's older residents are unhappy with the economy
Nearly three-quarters of older Americans questioned were worried they would not have enough money during retirement.
Naples Daily News
Stop scaring seniors
Those who are yet to be on Medicare fear never receiving a dime of the benefit their payroll taxes have helped fund for so many years.
Fort Myers News-Press
What Sen. Rubio really meant to say about Medicare
The Romney/Ryan “voucher” plan is limited to a predetermined amount, bound to be insufficient in many cases (as it will be adequate in others).
Palm Beach Daily News
Florida's older residents fearful about financial future, want solutions
When half of those age 50 and over fear they may never be able financially to retire, we are not at the place we should be.
Treasure Coast Palm
Rubio right on Medicare diagnosis, wrong on treatment
Sen. Rubio is wrong if he thinks that Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan is the way to save Medicare,
Palm Beach Post
Medicare pilot program will help Treasure Coast seniors with chronic illnesses
Treasure Coast seniors with chronic illnesses soon may be able to avoid nursing-home stays with the help of a Medicare pilot program.
Treasure Coast Palm
Medicare deserves sharp focus in 2012 campaign
A serious national debate over the program's future is overdue.
Orlando Sentinel

Op Ed

Seniors face fiscal cliff

Floridians should be especially concerned about one particular tax increase that will fall disproportionately on seniors. Beginning next year, tax...

Florida Today
Fight elder financial abuse

Research suggests that...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Romney-Ryan Medicare plan not better for seniors

The Romney-Ryan voucher plan...

Palm Beach Post
Value our assisted living facilities

The FALA does not agree that additional layers of regulation and government oversight of these private enterprises are warranted.

Tallahassee Democrat
Romney-Ryan plan would put Medicare into death spiral

 

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Palm Beach Post
Romney-Ryan will strengthen and save Medicare

 

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Tampa Tribune

Letter To The Editor

Medicare benefits are stunningly good

I don’t see how the next generation can continue to provide such lavish coverages for people like me, without expecting us to pay for any of it...

Tallahassee Democrat
Romney-Ryan Medicare Plan Throws Future Generations Under Bus

The Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan plan for seniors on Medicare is disturbing, to say the least. They dangle the proverbial carrot in front of seniors 55...

Lakeland Ledger
Vouchercare will kill Medicare

Question: If privatization of medical insurance results in lower costs, why is it that America, with the most privatization, has the highest costs...

St. Augustine Record
A conflict of interest

 

I wish AARP...

Daytona Beach News-Journal
Eldercare is a Family Value
Vital Vaccines Made Easy
Florida's Hyper-Aggressive Medical Culture
Affordable Care Act Protects Seniors
First Inductees in Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame
Both Parties Need Dose of Reality on Entitlements
Give Seniors Vital Weapons in Fight to Survive Pneumonia
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Overheated Rhetoric and Charges Obscure Truth About Entitlements
The Villages, Where Life is Good
Medicare Vouchers Would Shatter Safety Net
When I’m Dying, Let Me Kill Myself
Retirement Becoming Impossible Dream in Florida

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