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Jun 27 2010

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Senior Citizen's Handbook

When I visited my library the other day, I came across the Senior Citizen's Handbook: Laws and Programs Affecting Senior Citizens in Virginia.

Financial Assistance
It's a slender, oversized book, with chapters on Financial Assistance, explaining in detail everything you need to know about Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Pensions and Veterans Benefits, the Food Stamp program and Federal Tax Relief.

Health Care
There's also a section on Health Care, discussing in detail Medicaid, Medicare, Medigap and Medicare Supplemental Insurance, Long-term Care Insurance, Alzh eimer's Disease, and Injury and Illness Prevention.

Long Term Care
They also discuss Long Term Care in detail, including Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, Adult Day Care, Home Care, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities.

Housing
This section discusses Landlord-Tenant Issues, Rental Assistance Program, and Reverse Mortgages.

Then they get into the legal stuff, called Preparing for the Future

Divorce for the elderly, Real estate transfers, Probate and estate administration, Advance Directives, Power of Attorney, Guardianship, and Funeral Services.

Protection of Legal Rights
Consumer Guide - credit cards, telemarketers, unscrupulous practices, Age Discrimination, Discrimination based on disability, and Elder abuse.

Finally, there's a list of all sorts of helpful contacts for seniors.

Every State Has A Senior Citizen's Handbook
That's why it's important for senior citizens to become familiar with the internet, and know how to find things on it. Obviously, you're familiar with it - otherwise you wouldn't have found this blog, but too many seniors are afraid to try computers because they think it's too hard.

And heck, 20 years ago that may have been true. But these days computers are so simple to operate that any senior, if shown how to do it by someone patient and knowledgeable themselves, can learn how to do it.

Go to your favorite search engine. I use www.google.com Type in "Senior Citizen's Handbook" and your state in the search box, and then let it rip.

In addition to a website for each state dedicated to Senior Citizens, you can also download this handbook as a PDF. That means that you can open the file and read it (using a program called Acrobat Reader, which is free.)

Because all of the files are electronic, they can be updated within days of a rule being changed ... so that these files never go out of date. (Of course, that's always assuming that the state involved has enough money to pay a webmaster to update the files...!)

So take a tour of the web, and find the handbook for your state, and read up on everything you need to know.

For more information go to http://www.seniorservicematch.com/formindex.php
Fill out their short survey to find services and information that match your needs.

Diamonds in the Rough: Championship Golf on the Senior PGA Tour
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We are living in the golden age of golf, and some of golf's finest players are celebrating their golden years. Legends such as Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd, and Gary Player still make headlines, competing for $40 million on the Senior PGA Tour with fellow "over-fifty" newcomers Hale Irwin, Dr. Gil Morgan, David Graham, and Johnny Miller. In Diamonds in the Rough, journalist Mark Shaw spent a year on tour with these grand masters of the game, privy to their private thoughts and inspiring sense of play. The result: Shaw captures their dry wit, uncommon wisdom, and unforgettable personal stories of triumph and tragedy, bringing the 1997 Senior PGA Tour, now in its twentieth year, to dazzling life as never before.It was a magical season featuring remarkable moments, including a miracle win by Vietnam veteran Buddy Allin, the spine-tingling ninth-hole playoff victory for the affable Irishman Bob Murphy, Japanese Isao Aoki's mystical round of 60, and colorful Chi Chi Rodriguez's quest for victory aided by lamb hormone shots, snake rings, and supercharged golf balls.It was also the year Arnold Palmer, Jim Colbert, and Larry Gilbert announced they were battling cancer, recovering alcoholic Dana Quigley won his first tournament victory on the same day his father died, Gary Player achieved an inspiring win at the Senior British Open, and Dr. Gil Morgan and Hale Irwin went down to the wire for the much coveted Player of the Year honors.It's all here--in vivid detail--the victories and bittersweet defeats. Filled with incredible play, fascinating stories, and hilarious anecdotes, Diamonds in the Rough is a true golf treasure.

What John Feinstein did to the PGA Tour in A Good Walk Spoiled, Mark Shaw does to the Senior Tour in Diamonds in the Rough. By chronicling an entire season, he peels off the public persona to find the personality underneath, and if there's one thing the Senior Tour is full of, it's personality. Golf's greatest mulligan, it is the ultimate in second chances in professional sports, and while the competition is every bit as intense and ego-driven as it is on the regular tour, there's also a congeniality and camaraderie that seeps into its atmosphere. Shaw captures that sensibility nicely, offering an open window into the ribbing and by-play. But the 1997 season was one of inspiring drama as well--with Gary Player winning the British Senior Open on the course and Arnold Palmer and Jim Colbert battling prostate cancer off of it. Shaw explores these worlds within a world quite well, capturing in the process the complex characters of such fairway legends as Chi Chi Rodriguez, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, and Hale Irwin. --Jeff Silverman

Senior Tour, The
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An illustrated profile of such players as Lee Trevino, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Arnold Palmer, and others shows how these living legends have revived their careers on the Senior circuit and includes golf tips from the players.