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Travel was once a key component of the picture working professionals created of their ideal retirements. While the COVID-19 pandemic put many retirement travel plans on hold in recent years, jetting off to distant locales is once again on retirees’ radars. A 2022 survey from AARP found that individuals 50 and over were poised to not only get back on
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Adults 50 and older may have more time for leisure and recreation than working adults, and the summer months provide ample opportunities to get active. After months of chilly temperatures, adults 50 and older may be eager to get outdoors and enjoy some fun in the sun. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that adults age 50
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As physically active individuals age, they typically must change how they approach exercise. For example, rather than jumping two feet first into new activities like they might have done when they were younger, those 50 and older may have to think about injury prevention and ways to improve their endurance prior to lacing up their sneakers. For most, that may
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus When a group of 12 retirees volunteered to help along the Gulf Coast, lending their talents in any way they could following the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, they had no idea it would lead to years of extraordinary work back in their Shoals hometowns. Sometime before the record-setting storm had made landfall
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus When Max Gee retired at 67 from selling automotive equipment in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, he and his wife, Myra, made the move to her old home in Florence to care for her sick and elderly father. For four years, the couple’s days were dedicated to the care of Gee’s father-in-law. After
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus Faye Hester took about two months off from work after retiring from the Helen Keller Hospital business office in July of 1998. The following September, she returned to volunteer at the hospital, where she will celebrate 25 years and more than 10,000 hours of service work this fall. “I know what the volunteers
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus Bryan Hamilton got his first car, a 1966 Ford Mustang, while he was a student attending Coffee High School in Florence. Today, that same sports car and several others fill a garage in Lauderdale County, occasionally making appearances at vintage car shows all over the Southeast. “I bought it in 1976 from a
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