Retirement Focus

Let’s be honest here – what do you think of when you imagine a retirement community? Clinical rooms. Hospital beds. Nurses. How about rich wood banisters and chandeliers? A concierge who greets you when you walk through the door? Indoor pools and a model train room? 

Retirement Focus

With Americans living longer than ever, chances are good that most of us will live many years into retirement.

If illness or injury strikes, you want to know that there is someone on hand to manage your day-to-day finances and investments. Unfortunately, the burden of your care giving may be more than your spouse can handle – and he or she may have health issues as well. If you are single, you may not have other relatives within close proximity to be of assistance.

Transform your look with these simple, and safe, beauty treatments.

Remember that New Year’s resolution you made to feel better about yourself? Start acting. Freshen up with a treatment that will transform your look without pain or steep price.

The secret to having a relaxing holiday season.

Holiday stress can be physically draining and emotionally overwhelming. There never seems to be enough time to get everything done, let alone get it all done in the way we’ve hoped and planned. But there is help from the stressful highs and lows of the holiday season—massage therapy.
 

Nine ways to break out of a weight loss plateau.

You know you’ve hit a plateau when more than two weeks have gone by without any change in your weight,” says Nicole Hudson, a nutrition consultant in private practice in New York City. Although it’s tempting to slip into crash diets, the best way to break a plateau is to review your current weight-loss program and try to find where the problem lies.

Fall beauty trends pay homage to looks from the past.

Much like the fall 2006 fashion shows, this year’s trends in beauty take a page from the past, calling up images of the ’40s, ’60s and ’80s. But what comes around doesn’t necessarily go around—this new take on the retro look is distinctly upgraded to fi t in 2006. Here’s are some of our favorite trends that showed up on the runways.