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You’ve heard this before, I know, and yet it remains as disturbing as ever. Health care costs, along with housing, are likely to be your biggest expenses in retirement. Boston-based Fidelity Investments found that premiums, deductibles and other out-of-pocket expenses could cost a 65-year-old…
FICO, the nation's leading credit-scoring company, is making two changes that could benefit consumers with debt that has gone into collection.
Are you and your spouse thinking about retiring early? Doing so can cost you, as a couple, an extra $17,000 a year in medical costs, according to a Fidelity Investments analysis.
Think you might have bronchitis, a sinus infection, or other non-life threatening illness and can't wait for an appointment with your regular doctor? Not sure if you should go to the ER? Have travel plans and worried if you should fly? Then these online medical-care sites and mobile apps might…
Medicare could save $560 million or more a year simply by allowing some patients who call 911 for an ambulance to be taken somewhere other than a hospital emergency room.
The MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2013 MacArthur Fellows. Each year, the foundation provides stipends of $625,000 - popularly known as "genius grants" - to encourage "people of outstanding talent" to pursue their ambitions in the arts, sciences, education, social entrepreneurship and other…
April is Parkinson's Awareness Month and AARP is happy to have The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) as a guest blog contributor. Throughout the month of April MJFF is sharing insight into the Parkinson's research landscape, advice on living with Parkinson's and steps you…
April is Parkinson's Awareness Month and AARP is happy to have The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) as a guest blog contributor. Throughout the month of April MJFF is sharing insight into the Parkinson's research landscape, advice on living with Parkinson's and steps you…
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April is Parkinson's Awareness Month and AARP is happy to have The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research as a guest contributor. Check back throughout the month of April as the Foundation shares insight into the Parkinson's research landscape, advice on living with Parkinson's and…
The following is a guest post by Nicole Duritz, Vice President, Health, AARP Education and Outreach