With some companies continuing to allow working from home, you may be envisioning yourself tapping away at your laptop from a second home. If so, you're not alone. In fact, according to real estate brokerage firm Redfin, the second home market experienced 128 percent year-over-year growth between March 2020 and March 2021. But the benefits of having a second home can go well beyond giving yourself a change of scenery. It [...]

Weight lifting and stretching are useful at any age, but there are specific benefits for older adults. With aging comes concerns about strength, balance, and mobility. But integrating resistance training and stretching into your routine can keep you feeling healthy and strong. Not sure where to start? Read on for a primer on how aging affects your body and how movement can make a difference, plus a full-body workout and [...]

You'll probably rely on Social Security to a pretty substantial degree once you retire. Even if you kick off your senior years with ample savings, it pays to get as much money out of Social Security as you can. And these tricks could help you do just that. 1. Delay your filing for a few months You're entitled to your full monthly Social Security benefit based on your earnings history once you reach full [...]

By now, if you’ve been paying attention, you know the many reasons that explain the sudden surge in inflation. What you don’t know—what nobody knows—is whether this surge will sustain itself for the long term or whether it will evaporate just as quickly as it came about.

Smartphone usage increased dramatically during the pandemic as more people lost their jobs, were furloughed, or adhered to stay-at-home orders. While smartphones can provide endless entertainment, they can also be bad news for your budget. In fact, the combined global monthly amount that consumers spent on apps and games peaked in May 2020 at $9.4 billion, a 25 percent gain on the monthly average in 2019. While that’s all fun and [...]

Thanks to today’s advanced research and new innovations, it’s more than possible for us to live longer, stronger and healthier lives. While life expectancy in the U.S. dropped one full year during the first half of 2020, according to a CDC report, much of that was attributed to the pandemic. Prior to Covid, however, life expectancy in the U.S. was 78.8 years in 2019, up a tenth of a year over 2018. As a longevity [...]