Estate Planning for the Family Business
By M. Keywood Deese, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
Statistics reflect that over 55% of business owners die without a will, and that only 15% of family owned businesses make it to the second generation. If you want to make sure that your business will succeed you, it is necessary to establish an estate plan to facilitate that process. […]
Catch Your Breath: 10 Tips for Coping with COPD
By Susan Rogers, MSG, Collin and Denton Counties LIVING WELL Magazines
“It feels like an elephant is sitting on my chest” explains the woman on the phone, “and I just can’t catch my breath.” For someone living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, the simple act of breathing can feel as strenuous as lifting a four ton elephant off your chest. […]
Are You Concerned About the Rising Cost for Home Health Care?
By Linda DeGraffenreid, LIVING WELL Magazines
When the time arrives that you or a loved one needs additional assistance for daily living and personal care, before making this huge decision you should do a comparison of Elder Care Costs. […]
Lifeline for Medicare ?
By Tucker Thompson, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine
With “baby boomers” turning 65, questions abound about the financial “stability” of Medicare. And Congress “struggles” with renewed focus on finding ways to ensure our funds will last past 2024! […]
Dry Eyes and the Cornea
Courtesy Advanced Eye Care Center, Denton LIVING WELL Magazine
Dry or irritated eyes can be a symptom of a tear disorder that limits the ability to protect the cornea and eye surface. The symptoms can vary and may include sandy or gritty eyes, burning, soreness and eye fatigue. Each person may respond differently to this irregularity in the tears. Patients may not know the severity of the damage to the cornea and ocular surface by symptoms alone. […]
Living with Parkinson’s Disease
By Joan Weems, RN, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
Parkinson’s disease is a disorder of certain nerve cells in the brain that normally produce a chemical called dopamine, which helps the brain direct and control smooth, coordinated function of the body’s muscles and movement. In Parkinson’s disease, these dopamine-producing nerve cells break down and die or become impaired. When 80% of those dopamine-producing cells are damaged, the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are seen. […]
Making the Most of Our Golden Years
By Shirley Long, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine
Have the “Golden Years” crept up on you when you weren’t looking? It may seem as though one day you had a house full of children or grandchildren, you were busy with careers and an active social life…and then you looked around and discovered your life has changed dramatically. […]
Are Your Hearing Aids Working Their Best?
By Celia McCormick, Au.D., Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine
Just like cell phones, televisions, and tablet computers, hearing aids have gone through an amazing technology change during the past five years. Despite all of these incredible advances, patients occasionally come into the office and say, “My hearing aids just don’t work.” If YOU have ever said this, ask yourself… […]
The Calm before the Surgery
Courtesy Heritage Park Surgical Hospital
Most people would prefer to not have any type of surgery in their lifetime. They are fearful of the operation, the anesthesia, the hospital itself, what their family and loved ones will be doing, and some even fear that first IV needle. Whether elective or emergent, the chances are that you will have to undergo some type of surgery in your lifetime. […]
A Simple Way to Transfer Wealth
Courtesy Dan and R. Brennan Barlow, Denton County LIVING WELL Magazine
Thanks to the 2010 tax-relief legislation, the rules for estate planning are very favorable in 2012. This two-year window of opportunity provides the incentive to act now. […]
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