The national median annual cost of staying in a nursing home is approaching $90,000, according to Genworth Financial.
Options to help address these expenses include traditional long-term care insurance or life insurance that covers some care benefits.
Customers have faced premium rate increases for traditional long-term care insurance policies.
The October 2018 issue of the National Guard magazine includes the following articles:
Securing the Vote State and local officials turn to the Guard to help protect election computers.
Promotion Fedrec Wait Times See Dramatic Drop Some National Guard officers are waiting 40 percent less for federal recognition of their state promotions since NGAUS cast a light on lengthy delays in the process.
Big Time in the Big Easy Defense secretary, service chiefs and the Guard Bureau Chief highlight festive annual NGAUS general conference.
Rare Air Unique training space attracts aircraft from across the services to Guard-run combat exercise.
Chairman’s Message: Our Nation’s Interest It seems logical that the nation would want the Guard as an asset in a separate Space Force.
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As we head toward the end of 2018, people with individual retirement arrangements (IRAs) and 401(k)s should create a checklist to help them avoid tax and inheritance mistakes over the rest of the year and beyond.
Most everyone knows they should check their contingent and secondary beneficiaries and take their required minimum distributions (RMDs) if they are 70½ or older or have an inherited IRA.
But what are other things retirement account owners should do between now and Dec. 31?
From the Anchorage Daily News website
In a federal courtroom Friday, Maj. Gen. Thomas Katkus, the former adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard, said it was not true that he’d covered up and mishandled allegations of drug-dealing and sexual misconduct during his time as commander.
Katkus’s testimony, his first public statements on the matters since his forced resignation in 2014, came on the witness stand in a civil lawsuit. A former Anchorage police lieutenant, Anthony Henry, has sued the city of Anchorage alleging retaliation and wrongful termination. The city accused Henry of interfering with investigations into sexual assault and drug-dealing in the National Guard, and then lying about it.
Hawaii Air National Guard photograph | click to enlarge
This undated photograph shows the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron training office. MSgt Ignacio Gabriel, Jr. was the NCOIC and Carole Fukuda – now Carole Yoshikane – was then a Traditional Guardmember.
This photograph was probably taken in the mid-to-late 1980s because Gabe retired in 1988. Early in his career, Gabe was the unit photographer and many of the old black and white photographs featured in Retiree News were taken by him. Gabe passed in 2017 at the age of 89.
Gabe’s son Richard Gabriel served in the HIANG on the fighter flight line. He passed in the early 2000s after facing medical challenges.
Carole later became a fulltime technician and served many years in the maintenance complex.
From the Airman Magazine website
This digital edition provides you the most in-depth coverage of Air, Space & Cyber Conference 2018, presented in an interactive format with videos, photo galleries, and animations.
Click here to view the digital edition
Retiree News envisions additional traditional magazines evolving to some type of digital format in the coming years. Many magazines and newspapers already have paper and digital copies available but will eventually move toward an all digital format.
From the Everyday Health website
You probably know that the primary source of vitamin D is right outside your door and up in the sky. The sun helps synthesize vitamin D in the skin — promoting the growth of strong muscles and bones, lowering blood pressure, easing fibromyalgia pain, and slowing the progression of multiple sclerosis.
But just as vitamin D can promote good health, a lack of it may lead to health issues.
Russell Toshio Komori peacefully passed away on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at the age of 73. Russell was born on August 30, 1944 to parents Kenneth “Rusty” Komori and Kae Komori, predeceased.
After working for over 30 years in the family business, Rusty’s Farm Inc., he went on to be grounds maintenance supervisor with Mililani Town Association, and later Cirrus Associates Residential Properties at Iroquois Point and Barber’s Point. He retired from the Hawaii Army National Guard and Hawaii Air National Guard.
He is survived by brothers Steven (Ailene) Komori, Mitchell Komori, sister Kathy Komori, nieces Tracie Komori, Caryn (Shawn) Tangalin, son Rusty, daughter Lori Anne, and grand-daughter Naia.
Celebration of Russell’s life will be held Saturday, October 27, 2018 at Mililani Memorial Park, Makai Chapel. Visitation at 9:00 am, services at 10:00 am, with burial to follow at 1:00 pm.
Retiree News extends heartfelt sympathy to Russell’s family and friends.
From the Travel Channel website
From thin-crust to deep-dish, here’s where to find the best slice in each state, plus D.C.
Who has the best pizza in Hawaii?
If you a want to more about pizza, go to the Pizza Therapy website, run by Albert Grande.
From the Kaiser Health News website
Everyone has seen the ads or the products on the shelves.
A dietary supplement that promises to make consumers skinny, without dieting or exercise. Or the one that will bulk them up and turn them into the envy of other weightlifters at the gym. Not to mention the one to make them perform better in the bedroom.
Their labels say they are safe and all-natural. But are they?
The pain and frustration are palpable.
“I hired a maid… [My mother] didn’t talk to me for months. I filled two construction dumpsters full and there was still 2,400 square feet left to clean up. Eventually the maid quit when my dad berated her for throwing away a plate with petrified ketchup gluing a dead mouse to it. That was the last time I tried to ‘help.’”
The comment, posted on a Children of Hoarders website discussion board, provides a glimpse into the daily lives of those with a parent who hoards.
It’s an all-too-common scenario: the adult child struggles to get his or her parent to clean out the house and stop bringing more stuff in, only to face resistance.
Las Vegas isn’t just about the gambling and free drinks; it’s also about food, glorious food … more specifically, the buffets.
From the NGAUS Washington Report
Army National Guard soldiers will be first to receive the Army’s new smartphone-friendly pay and personnel-management system when it rolls out early next year.
The Integrated Personnel and Pay System will give soldiers more visibility of their personnel records, Col. Gregory Johnson, the IPPS-A’s chief of functional management, told Military.com. That level of transparency is long overdue, he added.
Wonder if the Air Force is planning a similar app?
One in four Americans 65 and older falls each year, with some ending up in hospitals or even dying. But new research suggests that it’s possible to avoid some of these serious injuries.
When seniors who are at risk of falling have a prevention plan, they’re less likely to suffer a tumble-related hospitalization, the study found.
