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​Being Organized is Good for Your Health

1/28/2019

 
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​Are you disorganized? Do you have stacks of papers and stuff all over your desk, your office or your house? Clutter everywhere. Do you realize somewhere in your subconscious, you are aware of where things are in all of that clutter? Can you imagine the amount of energy and focus you would have if you didn’t use up all your potential just trying to remember where you put something? Let’s call it — brain drain. Think about where placed an item in a crowded room can be like finding a needle in a haystack all the time — a massive waste of energy.
 
The exciting thing for people that are disorganized is when they find what they were looking for – they feel thrilled and happy and almost reward themselves for being able to find something in all the chaos! While, virtually every time, an organized person sees what they are looking instantly. And if the saying is true — time is money. How much time you waste looking for stuff can cost you financially, as well.
 
Being organized helps with time management. If you don’t control how and where you spend your time, your time will control you and how you spend your time. Keeping to a schedule and a to-do list will help you manage your time better and also manage tasks and things you want to complete.
 
As you go through your day, keep yourself motivated and focused, by having mini rewards when you check off items as you get them completed. However, this is a learning process. Many of the most successful people in the world swear by managing their time — everything from waking up, showering, coffee, exercise, work, and family time.
 
The exciting thing about being organized is – it’s much like time management. You don’t know good time management until you have experienced wasting time and poor time management. You may not understand how being disorganized is negatively impacting your life until you become organized.
 
Being organized helps reduce stress and anxiety, which we know have many adverse effects on our overall health and well-being. However, to stress over a schedule and a to-do list is also counterproductive. Developing a plan to be well organized is a process, like any other habits we might change in our lives.
 
Begin with implementing a schedule with a time cushion to help you feel like you have more time than you need. Create a to-do list to track your activities. One such action could be to clean and organize your surroundings. You will feel better and have more positive energy.
 
The same applies to creating and organizing the right wellness plan for your company. Let Meliora show you how to 'organize' a sustainable wellness program to focus on your employees with our unique and customizable wellness platform.

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Seniors Socialize: Loneliness Is Detrimental To Physical and Mental Health

1/23/2019

 
You may have a loved one, parent, friend, aunt/uncle, grandparent or perhaps a sibling that is impacted by the transition of aging and the notion of being a 'senior' and the social changes that could impact their overall wellbeing. There are many opportunities whether they live independently or in an assisted living environment .

Social isolation isn’t specific to any age demographic, but it is more difficult to maintain a positive social life as you age. Health effects, both physical and mental, start to take their toll. While the average national life expectancy rises, many seniors live in assisted care facilities with many of their friends and same-aged relatives having already passed, or falling into similar health issues themselves. So the question remains: how does this impact seniors?

Technology Connects and Divides
It’s 2017—we’re all connected to each other through social media, text messaging, or email at the absolute least. We talk to friends that we don’t physically see in person for years at a time. One day, the younger generation will be in the same shoes as the current elder population, bent on technology and able to connect a little bit easier. But the fact is, nowadays, seniors are not utilizing social media—loneliness is much more simple to suffer from now than ever before. When a vast majority of the population is connecting through alternate means, you get left behind. How do we fix this?
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Crafting Brand New Opportunity
Assisted care facilities often fall short on proper programs for seniors to get involved in. Even when just socializing between other seniors in the facility, there are still numerous benefits to reap. Loneliness is linked to early death and increased levels of depression. Isolation is detrimental to mental health, which in turn can be just as damaging to physical health. It isn’t enough to simply bring up opportunities; seniors suffering from loneliness may already be accepting a false fact that they have to go the rest of life alone. It’s important to coach them into social situations and brings those situations to them.

What We Can All Do
Believe it or not, there are things that can be done to prevent or reverse these negative effects. Creating connections, whether it’s in terms of assisted living-exterior events to attend, colluding with residents from other assisted living centers (think of it as a collaborative effort from two separate centers), or volunteering your time.

Community, and the sense that’s supposed to come with it, is digitalized. While it may appear to have been here forever, and to some of you reading this, it may have actually been around since before you were born, digitalizing communities is still in its infancy. While the effects can be far spread, there’s no positive impact on the elderly community as of this time. In person interactions and attentiveness can decrease the need for seniors to isolate themselves, and in turn, increase senior living situations in ways that become visible almost immediately.

Article shared by Options for Senior Living

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Advantages of Estate Planning

1/17/2019

 
Estate planning is the process of preparing for the transfer of a person’s wealth or assets such as life insurance, cars, pensions, real estate, personal belongings after death.
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​Advantages of Estate Planning:
  • Property goes to the right beneficiaries. The estate plan you made will exactly outline where your assets are going in the event of your death.
  • Provide for your family. The estate plan you made will help your family with their living expenses and payment of bills. With a good estate planning, it ensures that your family is provided for and not left to face financial problems once you’re gone.
  • Reduce taxes. When you are going to make an estate plan, you must be able to keep the cost of transferring any property to your beneficiaries at a minimum.
  • Plan for incapacity. If for instance, you become mentally or physically incapacitated, the estate plan you made will summarize all the choices you made regarding life like who will make medical decisions on your behalf.
  • Provide for those who may need it. If you have an incapacitated child or child with disability or grandchildren who will be attending college in the future, you can set up a trust to provide funds to support them with the estate plan you made.

Benefits Of Estate Planning
  • Minimizes estate taxes and probate fees.
  • Designates charitable gifts.
  • For business owners, it ensures your business will be handled the way you desire.
  • Specifies who you want to look after your last wishes.

Estate planning can be accomplished through a variety of methods like:
  • Revocable Living Trusts
  • Last Will and Testament / Probate
  • Lifetime Gifting
  • Joint Ownership
  • Beneficiary Designations
  • Life Estates

Important Documents for Planning your Estate
Will-based. Your foundational estate plan includes the four (4) important documents.
  • Last Will and Testament. Last wishes concerning the affairs and  distribution of estate.
  • Advance Medical Directive. A document you sign to inform your doctor that you do not want to use any life-sustaining treatment when you become ill to prolong your life.
  • Living Will. A document that state an individual’s wish for end-of-life medical care when they are unable to communicate their decisions.
  • Financial Power of Attorney. It is when you give the agent the authority to manage the financial life of the principal when you are unable to do it.
​Trust-based. This is to hold title to your assets during your lifetime and will be transferred after death.
  • Pour Over Will
  •  A document wherein the writer of a will creates a trust and decrees in the will that the property in his estate at the time of his death shall be distributed to the trustee of the trust.
  • Revocable Living Trust An agreement that states how an individual’s property shall be distributed and managed during their lifetime and after death.
  • Advance Medical Directive
  • Living Will. A document where the signer chooses to die rather than be kept alive by artificial means.
  • Financial Power of Attorney

The purpose of the article is for information only. Seek professional legal advice for any of the above services.

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