Tag Archives: seniors

Social Security Benefits To Increase 8.7% In 2023

From the Social Security Administration: Approximately 70 million Americans will see a 8.7% increase in their Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments in 2023. On average, Social Security benefits will increase by more than $140 per month starting in January. Federal benefit rates increase when the cost-of-living rises, as measured by the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price …

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1% Of Americans Over Age 65 Have Died Of COVID

The New York Times reports: Seventy-five percent of people who have died of the virus in the United States — or about 600,000 of the nearly 800,000 who have perished so far — have been 65 or older. One in 100 older Americans has died from the virus. For people younger than 65, that ratio is closer to 1 in …

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Trump’s $200 Gift Cards Won’t Go Out Before Election

The Wall Street Journal reports: President Trump’s plan to send 33 million Medicare beneficiaries a card that can be used to help pay for as much as $200 in prescription drug costs won’t be completed until after the election, according to a person familiar with the plan. The cards will be mailed in phases, with some likely going out later …

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Trump Tweets Meme Showing Biden In Wheelchair

The Daily Beast reports: Despite recent national polls showing President Donald Trump losing among voters aged 65 and older by more than 20 points, a key demographic that Republican presidential candidates have carried for 20 years, the president decided to mockingly tweet a photoshopped image of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as a nursing home resident on Tuesday night. The …

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Potential “Seismic Shift” Against Trump Among Seniors

FiveThirtyEight reports: In 2016 President Trump performed best among voters 65 years and older. He also won among those between the ages of 45 and 64. So looking ahead to November, you might expect Trump to once again do well with older voters. However, recent public polls — and the president’s own private polling — suggest that Trump may be …

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CDC To Seniors: Stockpile Supplies And Avoid Travel

ABC News reports: Older Americans, especially those with underlying health conditions, should stockpile supplies and avoid unnecessary travel, a top official at the CDC said Monday. Most Americans are likely at risk of catching the novel strain of the coronavirus, said Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “As the trajectory of the outbreak …

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Nursing Home Staff Charged In 12 Hurricane Deaths

ABC News reports: Calling it “a terrible tragedy that should have never happened,” the police chief of Hollywood, Florida, announced on Tuesday the arrests of four staff members of a nursing rehabilitation center whose alleged inaction caused the deaths of 12 elderly patients who perished from heatstroke when they were left lingering for hours in the sweltering facility that lost …

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IRELAND: Seniors Split On Marriage Vote

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CLEVELAND: 99 Year-Old Runner Ida Keeling Sets Record At Gay Games

Via local television: “My doctor told me two years straight I’m as healthy as a healthy 20-year-old. Hooray!” Keeling said prior to her race. Her coach and daughter, Shelley Kelling, reminded Ida to stay in her lane and focus on the finish line. When the starter fired his pistol, the crowd immediately began cheering for the senior citizen from New …

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Bush Senior Parachutes On 90th Birthday

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80 Year-Old Salsa Dancer Wows Judges, Draws Controversy On Britain’s Got Talent

Via the Guardian: It felt like another Susan Boyle moment, in the opening episode of the new series of Britain’s Got Talent, when a 79-year-old grandmother suddenly revealed herself to be an extraordinary salsa dancer. But the shock on the faces of Simon Cowell and his fellow judges on the ITV talent show as Sarah “Paddy” Jones was thrown into …

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Seniors Make Deal With Queens McD’s

Last week a McDonald’s in Queens made headlines after calling the police to evict senior citizens that were spending their days taking up all the restaurant’s tables. The New York Daily News now reports that McDonald’s management and the seniors have come to an agreement. It’s a McDeal. A group of Korean senior citizens and the manager of a McDonald’s …

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Headline Of The Day

This story has been all over the NYC blogs this week and got more traction yesterday from the New York Times. Shortly after New Year’s Day, Man Hyung Lee, 77, was nursing a coffee in his usual seat in a narrow booth at a McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens, when two police officers stepped into the fluorescent light of the restaurant. …

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Oldest Man In History Dies At Age 116

The oldest man in the history of the world has died in Japan at the age of 116. Jiroemon Kimura, a former postman, died of natural causes in hospital in his hometown of Kyotango, western Japan, in the early hours of Wednesday, city officials told CNN. In December, Kimura had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest …

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George H.W. Bush Moved To ICU

The elder Bush has been in a Houston hospital for more than a month. Yesterday he was moved to the intensive care unit.

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An Election Message From Seniors

(Tipped by JMG reader William)

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The Rolling Stones – Doom & Gloom

The band is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

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Paul Ryan Booed By AARP

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Headline Of The Day

Ya think? Source.

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Johanna Quaas, 86, Gymnast

She even does the parallel bars.

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