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1. Stay Healthy: Wash Your Hands

   As we enter flu season, I want to remind everybody to wash their hands! When you go out Christmas shopping, washing your hands often can keep you from bringing germs home. When your grandchildren visit, wash your … Continue

2. Help for a Happy Thanksgiving with Seniors

   It’s Thanksgiving again!  Millions of families across the country–and expats all over the world for that matter–are preparing themselves for turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, candied yams, and I won’t even mention the desserts!  … Continue

3. Holidays with Seniors: A Successful Thanksgiving

   It’s Thanksgiving again!  Millions of families across the country–and expats all over the world for that matter–are preparing themselves for turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, candied yams, and I won’t even mention the desserts!  … Continue

4. Long term care insurance: self-insuring

   Maybe you’ve thought about long term care, and you’ve decided that you have enough money tucked away to take care of it when it happens to you. We insurance nerds call that “self-insuring.” You’ve decided that you’ll … Continue

5. Long Term Care Insurance: too expensive?

   “Long term care insurance is too expensive.” Is it, really? How much does it cost? You don’t really know, do you, until you sit down with an LTC Specialist to discuss what sort of plan makes sense … Continue

6. Medical Marijuana and Nursing Homes

   Last election day (November 3, 2009) Maine voters approved Question 5, which enacted the citizen-initiated bill, “An act to establish the Maine Medical Marijuana Act “ LD975, IB2, allowing for medical marijuana use by people with debilitating … Continue

7. Bed Bugs: Don’t Let Them Bite!

   by Dan Thayer, President of Thayer Corporation, a HVAC company in Auburn, Maine Recently I attended a Bed Bug Cookout. Before you start thinking that this was the summer outing of the local entomology club let me … Continue