Archive for Health & Wellness

  • Milestones SEPTEMBER 2025 Clinton and Scott County Meal Site Noon Meals Milestones SEPTEMBER 2025 Clinton and Scott County Meal Site Noon Meals

    All meal inquiries call 1-855-410-6222 Cancellations ONLY call 563-484-3108 Mealsites are now open. Please call for required reservations 1-2 days in advance. Contact your Community Café or call 563-484-3108 Site listings: Cumberland House 332-9339, Edgewater on Third 484-3108, Eldridge 285-0...

  • Celebrating Assisted Living Celebrating Assisted Living

    By Cyndi Koenes Regional Marketing & Sales Director Park Vista - North Hill Park Vista - Camanche National Assisted Living Week (NALW) for 2025 will be held from September 7-13. The theme for this year is "Ageless Adventure". This is a week set aside every year to celebrate the residents...

  • Buying Supplemental Health Insurance:  Medigap Buying Supplemental Health Insurance: Medigap

    You can visit the Medicare website, medicare.gov, to find important information on how Medigap policies work with Medicare. By Craig Schillig, FSCP, LUTCF Independent Insurance and Financial Advisor Medicare won't cover all of your health-care costs during retirement, so you may want to buy a su...

  • Calendar of Events | AUGUST 2025 Calendar of Events | AUGUST 2025

    If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809  Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Grou...

  • Your Advocacy Connection Your Advocacy Connection

    We Solve Long-Term Care Problems Changes Ahead By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate Congress has passed a new federal budget. Like many large pieces of legislation, it covers everything — possibly even the kitchen sink. Whenever a bill of this size is passed, I ...

  • Yard and Garden: What’s Wrong with My Lawn? Yard and Garden: What’s Wrong with My Lawn?

    By Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Overview of leaf spot and melting-out A fungal disease called leaf spot and melting-out is one of the most common turfgrass diseases in Iowa. The fungi that cause leaf spot and melting-out and the spots they cause can be found on most lawns without...

  • Older Americans Act Turns 60: A Lifeline for Iowa’s Aging Population Older Americans Act Turns 60: A Lifeline for Iowa’s Aging Population

    By Milestones Area Agency on Aging This July 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the Older Americans Act (OAA), a landmark piece of legislation that laid the foundation for aging services in the United States. Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 14, 1965, the OAA was created to...

  • Aging and You Aging and You

    No Better Time Than Now By Julie Arndt Marketing Director at Ridgecrest Village There has never been a better time to consider moving to a senior living community—especially if you currently own your own home. Right now, it’s a seller’s market, and summer is the prime time of year to sell...