Dr Jerry Elrod's Senior Moments Blog
SENIOR LIVING FOR BABY BOOMERS
Baby Boomers today are beginning to consider downsizing their homes and the complications in their lives. Homes require a great deal of responsibility, care, and attention. Boomers today want to travel, explore, and play. The tiring responsibility of a large home and upkeep may no longer be appealing. Constant care and attention to lawn maintenance, house maintenance and high home tax is draining. That is one reason that senior living communities are becoming such attractive options for Boomers who are not ready to sit quietly in the corner knitting away their golden years. This leads many baby boomers to the question of what they should look for in a senior living community.
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About Jerry Elrod
Writing became a passion for Jerry, when in school he edited the high school weekly paper, moved on to college where he was editor of The Megaphone at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, and served on the staff of the Perkins' School of Theology, SMU, paper. Throughout his 40 year career in the United Methodist Ministry, he was involved in editing periodicals, authoring weekly columns and preparing sermons and speeches.
Jerry's final appointment before retirement was at Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist Church in Sun City West, Arizona. He served as Senior Pastor there for four years. In retirement, in search of a stimulating pastime, Senior Citizen Journal was created. Jerry's principal role has been composing a daily feature under the rubric Senior Moments .
Jerry retired as a United Methodist minister in 1997. He has served as interim pastor off and on over the past several years. Spouse, Sharon, is also involved in the Journal. She is an author in her own right, having written "Shar's Story, a Mother and Daughter Reunited," and Co-Authored "My Dirty Little Secrets - Steroids, Alcohol and God, The Tony Mandarich Story".
Social Security & Medicare
A Plan for Increasing Social Security Benefits Plans are beginning to surface for increasing Social Security benefits. Many pensions have been ...
Trust Fund Report for FY2011 Released The Board of Trustees of the Social Security Fund released its annual trust fund report ...
The national conversation, sponsored by AARP, on the future of Social Security and Medicare posts a comment daily on their ...
Misconceptions About Social Security A new attempt was made recently to pit younger people against the Baby Boomers and seniors receiving ...
National Support Programs for Seniors The good news: Support for Social Security and Medicare continues to grow. AARP recently launched its ...
More Medicare Resources Senior Citizen Journal remains committed to bring the best of Internet resources to our senior readers. We ...
Health Care Insurance Vital for Seniors Roosevelt gets the credit for Social Security, LBJ for Medicare, and now President Obama is ...
Senior Travel
SENIORS VISIT TEXAS HILL COUNTRYSeniors Retire in the Hill Country My wife and I love Texas Hill Country. If you have never driven through this part of the state, you are in for a treat. Whether you take Hwy 87 or 290, you will pass through smaller towns that team with rolling hills, lush green landscape, lakes and rivers [...]
SENIOR TRAVEL TO LITTLE ROCKLittle Rock is Not So Little Little Rock, Arkansas is not so little, as senior visitors will learn, in fact it’s the capital and the largest city of the state. So where did Little Rock get its name? Located near the geographic center of Arkansas, Little Rock derives its name from a small rock formation [...]
Senior Finances
CREATIVE LONG-TERM CARE PLANNINGWe talked about the effect long term care has on financial planning last week on SeniorCitizenJournal.com. Baby Boomers who have not yet retired, and younger generations as well, need to be seriously planning for their senior years’ long term care needs. We are living longer, and the need for long term care of one kind [...]
FAMILY FINANCES INCLUDE SUPPORTING AGING PARENTSSenior Financial Planning Senior citizen financial planning today needs to include planning for supporting aging parents who run out of resources. And that planning needs to have begun about three decades ago, so this is a post you might want to consider forwarding on to your adult children.// Here are the facts: People are living [...]
Lifestyle, Health & Fitness
Life Expectancies By Nationality: Can Your Genes Help You Live Longer?Lifestyle affects life expectancies more than genetics, but genetics and nationality do play a role in longevity. Certain nationalities have longer life spans than others, but the reasons differ culturally. Stress levels, location, diet, exercise, income levels and health care access all play a role in the life expectancy, and all vary from culture to [...]
BABY BOOMERS CHOOSE RETIREMENT NICHE COMMUNITIESBBs Redefine Retirement We senior citizens have been told for several years now that Baby Boomers will redefine retirement. They have redefined almost everything else they lived through. Why not include retirement? BBs are those folk born after WWII, beginning about 1946 and ending about 1965.// Baby Boomers are the generation that wants to live [...]
For Senior Women
TIPS FOR CONTROLLING HOUSEHOLD GERMSGerms Hide in Unsuspecting Places Women are still the primary house-keepers in most senior households. However, if you know men to whom this concern might apply, be sure to forward this article to them. Today we are concerned about germs that hide around the house. The germs that worry senior citizens most are salmonella and [...]
SENIOR WOMEN TRAVEL SOLOMore Single Senior Women A lot is being written about senior women these days. Statistics are showing more women are divorcing their husbands after 30 or 40 years of marriage than ever before. That is leaving a lot of women single, and able to make decisions on their own without having to consider the needs [...]
