Category: Living Life
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A Healthy Lifestyle Can Help with Diabetes
Medications and insulin may be necessary to help you manage diabetes, but diet and exercise can have great impacts on your health. Noticeable benefits of a healthy lifestyle include improved glucose levels, blood pressure, and cholesterol; maintaining a healthy weight or weight loss; building muscle strength; improved mood and improved sleep. Wondering where to begin?…
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Discussing End-of-Life Care Empowers You
While they can be difficult conversations to navigate, early discussions about end-of-life care can help you and your ‘ohana navigate the stress that arises alongside health challenges.
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Create a Legacy: 1031 Exchange
Imagine living life on your terms, free to focus on family, friends and your passions. Few among us don’t desire to live this way. Passive income streams can help lead you to this reality. There are many ways to begin forming them.
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Breeze Through the Airport with TSA Cares
Going through security at the airport is stressful. The lines are long. People around you are losing their minds. Airport air conditioning is way too cold, and when you finally get to the security scanner, TSA officials are shouting confusing directions: “Take your shoes off!” “Pour out that water!”
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love!
The city and county’s Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) Senior Citizens Program made a splash this year hosting an annual event Valentines Day dance titled Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Sponsored by Bank of Hawaii and DPR. Music by the Royal Hawaiian Band. 850 hearts (people) attended!
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Can You Trust Wristband Health Readings?
Rapid advances in healthcare technology allow many older adults to monitor their vital signs with a glance at their wrist. But is the wristband health technology accurate? You’ve probably seen the multitude of health monitors you can strap on your wrist. And you assume that they have passed testing to show that they are accurate…
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Lifelong Learning in Hawai‘i
The population structure in the U.S. is rapidly changing. Increased life expectancy, strong immigration and a fertility rate of presently 1.64 children per woman — higher than in other developed countries — will cause a population increase from 336 million (2023) to 373 million (2053). The population ages 60 and older will experience the strongest…
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More Seniors Try Marijuana
As cannabis becomes more accepted in the medical community, a rising number of seniors are trying it, especially for pain.
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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
I like to think of myself as a realist. I know we are all going to die and that 75 is actually not the new 50. Sorry to disappoint you. It ends up that 75 is really more like — wait for it — the old 74. What is also true is that time does…