The Time Of Your Life |
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Help the Aged, one of a number of caring organizations for the elderly, has done tremendous work not just in terms of fund-raising to provide better facilities for old people, but as a valued information service on a wide range of topics, from advice on winter warmth, to filling in forms.
As well as numerous leaflets offering practical advice on different individual subjects to do with old age, Help the Aged publishes a very useful book, entitled The Time of Your Life, which comprehensively covers the full range of topics which can cause stress in the elderly.
It may be ordered from Help the Aged and is very well worth reading as a source of inspiration as well as reassurance. In it you will find information on such points as housing options in retirement; the pros and cons of moving; practical financial advice on budgeting, pensions, tax, entitlements, investments and making a will; a complete section on health, with advice on diet, keeping fit and involved, and the importance of regular medical checkups.
There are also interesting personal accounts of how real- life pensioners have adjusted to retirement, providing an invaluable source of the kind of sympathetic information which can do so much to help relieve potentially damaging stress in old age.
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