Senior Tip - Take a look at www.reddit.com
I asked several younger folks who do not read newspapers anymore, just like me, what they do read? They responded Reddit. So I took a look. Reddit is a broad and deep news site that is aggregated by its readers. You can post stuff their yourself, if you have an interest, or you can just browse through the many stories on the site. This morning I compared the Associated Press stories with Reddit and I found Reddit to be more interesting. It has it all from finance to politics. Take a look at this site. Open your mind if you are skeptical and put it on your daily website visit list for a few days. I believe you will be hooked in a week. Almost all the seniors I know spend some time each day browsing the net for interesting stuff. It took me awhile, but Reddit is now on my favorites list. I did a search on Google-"advice for old people"- and a 2013 Reddit study came up. It was the result of a survey Reddit did of its readers that were over 60. You will no doubt find this study interesting with a bit of searching.
Here is a sidebar observation. Ads directed toward seniors are often condescending and arrogant. For example, I just listened to an ad on TV for medicare insurance by a popular insurance company. The ad proclaimed, in melodious baritone tones of confidence, that one of the superior advantages of this remarkable, once in a lifetime, insurance offer was that "You will be able to select your own doctor as long as they accept medicare insurance." If it is a duck, then by gosh, it is a duck. I hope you see my point. I suspect they will also claim that if your medical expenses are covered by this policy, then they will be covered.
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