Wise aging at home safe retirement living ideas
Practical guidance from Dr. Michael M. Dacso on aging in place highlights how to optimize a home for retirees. Focus on heating safety, stable temperatures, glare control, accessible bathrooms, slip-resistant flooring, ample lighting, door bells and alarm signals, gas shutoffs, stair railings, clear paths, and grab bars.
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Michael M. Dacso
Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center
Bronx
New York
Dacso
Handy Home Tips and Practical Fixes From Supe and Reader Letters
A collection of practical home repair hints: elevating sawhorses with a removable block, oiling tools with a stored brush in a jar, hinge placement for better doors, bending copper tubing by patterning with heavy wire, aluminum foil plant tags written with a ballpoint pen, and using vise grip pliers to hold a drill shaft for safer hammer blows.
Retirement rights clash with Women's Lib views
A letter to the editor discusses older men avoiding alimony and a retired man moving states amid women’s rights debates. The writer criticizes how Women’s Lib overlooks retirement concerns and inheritance, arguing older wives lack knowledge of wills and divorce effects.
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D. HL
Michigan
Georgia
Doctors Recommend Anacin For Pain Relief Question
A fragment asks what doctors advise for pain while noting that over 50 million Anacin tablets are prescribed yearly. It mentions Anacin containing a pain reliever and claims doctors may dispense it in office, urging readers to take the tablet.
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Deat Ran
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BY Sylvia Porter
Son
Supe&k Handyman
al Carrell
Tasal
Lib
Rosemount
Dewitt
W. Genesee ST
Westvale Shopping Center
Erie Blvd
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