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Savvy Senior: Little Known Social Security Program Helps Seniors Manage Their Money
Listen to my interview with Savvy Senior’s Jim Miller here.
By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
Does Social Security offer any special help to beneficiaries who struggle managing their benefits? My aunt, who has no children, has dementia and struggles keeping up with her bills and other financial duties.
Inquiring Niece
Dear Inquiring,
Yes, Social Security actually has a little-known program known as the “representative payee program” that helps beneficiaries who need help managing their Social Security benefit payments. Here’s what you should know.
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The Weekly Readlines September 10
The Weekly Readlines is a feature at LGBTSr.com, offering news and views you can use every Friday morning. Subscribe here for virtual delivery.
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIESPresident Biden goes on offense against vaccine refusers determined to ruin it for everyone else. Vaccination will now be mandatory for Federal workers, contractors, and employers with over 100 employees. Anti-vaxxers and no-maskers howl in response, demanding ‘my body, my choice,’ unless you’re a woman who needs an abortion in a GOP-led state.
Look for a continued surge in the sale of horse paste as the perfect stocking stuffer for Christmas. Despite health experts warning against using the horse de-wormer to treat Covid, it could be this year’s Tickle Me Elmo for the conspiracy theorist on your list.
And in happy news, Pete and Chasten Buttigieg announced the birth of their two children. Here’s hoping they have an inhabitable world to grow up in.
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An App for That: MyFitnessPal
An App for That is a regular feature at LGBTSr highlighting useful apps and technology tips for our readers. Have an app to recommend? Email me at: Editor @ LGBTSr.com
On my recent podcast interview with Angelica Herrera Venson of Kapok Caregiving Resources, she mentioned MyFitnessPal when we talked about apps and technology for older adults. I know this app well, having had it on my phone for the past couple years. It offers a lot of data, tracking and helpful information, and can be a handy tool in our health routine, especially if we want to keep track of what we eat and lose a few pounds in the process. I use the free version, of course, and only recommend apps that offer one.
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One Thing or Another Podcast: Angelica Herrera Venson of Kapok Multicultural Caregiving Joins the Show
Join me for a conversation with Angelica Herrera Venson, DrPH, MPH, Founder of Kapok Multicultural Caregiving. Kapok offers a wide variety of articles and resources for caregivers, older adults and their families across cultures. They offer experiences, best practices, tips, and affordable tools from sources you can trust. Angelica brings her high energy and dedication to the conversation, as well as to her mission. Fasten your headphones!
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One Thing or Another Podcast: Audiobook Narrator Sean Rhead on the Making of ‘Reservation for Murder’
Join me for a conversation with audiobook narrator Sean Rhead. We’ve just finished our second book together, Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery, and Sean lets us in on his process for taking a book from print to microphone. Sean has been in the narration business for the past two years, and currently has over 20 titles available for download on Audible. His favorite genres to narrate are fantasy and mystery, but there is no genre he wouldn’t like to take on. When Sean is not narrating, he spends his time teaching music to the younger generation, singing musical theatre songs, and duetting sea shanties on TikTok. He is also a proud ally of the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities.
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EVENTS: New Hope Celebrates Book Club, ‘Gay Bar’ by Jeremy Aherton Lin
When: Wednesday, Sep 22, 6:30 PMWhere: 162 Carousel Lane,Lahaska, PA 18931
Join us on Wednesday, September 22nd at 6:30 PM at the Lahaska Book Shop for the New Hope Celebrates Book Club! We will be discussing Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin.Jeremy Atherton Lin is an Asian-American essayist based in the UK. Jeremy studied playwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), then worked as an editor in San Francisco before transplanting to London, where he took a job in retail and hung out at bars. After gaining some attention for his candid observations in blogs and zines, he wound up on the Writing MA at the Royal College of Art (RCA). He has since contributed to The Yale Review, Granta, The White Review, ArtReview, Literary Hub, The Face, W, Tinted Window, and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut book Gay Bar (2021) was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Guardian Book of the Week. Jeremy’s mixtapes can be heard on NTS Radio, Spotify, and Mixcloud.
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Savvy Senior: How to Handle Your Medicare Coverage if You Move
By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
My husband and I are moving to a different area of the country to be near our daughter. Will this affect our Medicare benefits? Will we need to adjust our coverage or re-enroll in a new plan?
Moving Away
Dear Moving,
Moving can indeed affect your Medicare benefits depending on the type of coverage you have and where you move to.
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The Weekly Readlines September 3
The Weekly Readlines is a feature at LGBTSr.com, offering news and views you can use every Friday morning. Subscribe here for virtual delivery.
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIESAnd so it ends—the war in Afghanistan is over. Biden takes the hit, and he also takes responsibility, something we haven’t seen for, oh, four years or so.
Anti-vaxxers continue to ramp up their violent rhetoric, in futile rage against the nation’s attempt to stop a virus that doesn’t care about anyone’s civil rights. It just kills, and it has been on a spree. Welcome to Florida!
Texas made abortion all but illegal, with an assist from Supreme Court conservatives who have stopped pretending to be anything but enforcers for an extremist Republican agenda. Freedom flickers out one majority opinion at a time.
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On Dreamshaping: Today I (Insert Behavior Here)
Mark McNease
One of the tools I’ve used in shaping my own dreams is the ‘TODAY I’ list. It’s very simple: a regular, running list of things I’ve either stopped doing or begun to do. While putting things in the positive (‘Today I started ….’) is important, it’s also fine to say I stopped doing things that have been corrosive to my heath, mind, spirit, and dream.
It helps me stay observant of myself. I’ll notice myself engaging in some behavior, such as talking badly about someone at work, or gossiping, or being gratuitously negative, and I’ll add stopping it to my list. There’s a beginning to it the first time I write something down, but there is not set end: I may add to the list for the rest of my life, or, preferably, until I’m shaped my dream to the best of my liking and can confidently say ‘TODAY I stopped adding to my TODAY I list!’
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The Twist Podcast #169: Hello September, One War’s End, Clapton’s Claptrap, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we welcome September, reflect on the end of the war in Afghanistan, Big Boo tired guitar god Eric Clapton, and take a look at the headlines.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2021 MadeMark Publishing
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EVENTS: Philly Pride Returns September 4
When: September 4, 2021
Where: Starts at the Grand Plaza at Penn’s Landing
Time: 12:00 pm kickoffAbout Philly Pride
Philadelphia is home to some of the oldest events associated with LGBTQ pride in the United States. One of those events is Pride Day, which takes place on the second weekend of June. It encourages guests to share their own stories and experiences about coming out and to help others in need. The Philly Pride Festival usually takes place from Friday to Sunday every year, and always promises a colorful scene!
The Lesbian and Gay Task Force established a small office in Love Park in the 1980s and decided to host a Philadelphia Pride event that was open to the public. Several hundred people came out for the first parade and festival in 1988. In 2018, the organization celebrated the 30th anniversary of the event. Philly Gay Pride Weekend is now one of the largest events of its type in Pennsylvania.
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Alzheimer’s Association Offers LGBTQ Community Resources for Dementia
I’ll be speaking with Stephen Dolainski soon on an upcoming One Thing or Another Podcast about his experience as a caregiver for a friend with dementia, and about Alzheimer’s Los Angeles’ support group for LGBTQ caregivers. – Mark/Editor
From the Alzheimer’s Association
The LGBTQ community may face particular challenges related to Alzheimer’s and dementia, including finding inclusive and welcoming health care providers, less ability to call upon adult children for assistance, concerns about stigma and higher rates of poverty and social isolation.
Dementia and the LGBTQ community
These documents from the Alzheimer’s Association describe the issues that members of the LGBTQ community and their loved ones experience and offer guidance for navigating these challenges.
- Issues Brief: LGBT and Dementia, a collaboration with SAGE, outlines specific issues of concern related to LGBTQ people with dementia, including stigma, family composition, poverty and social isolation.
- LGBTQ Older Adults and Dementia is a guide for LGBTQ community members living with Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
- This infographic on the LGBTQ community and dementia includes important information about the LGBTQ community and dementia, including data about the challenges members of the community face accessing care.