Tag: elderly

Businessman in office talking on phone

This cartoon, by Vancouver Sun cartoonist Graham Harrop, hits on one of retirees’ biggest mysteries: their future health. The elderly live with the anxiety of getting a grave illness that isn’t easy to fix, such as cancer or a stroke.  And despite having Medicare insurance, they also have to worry how much it would cost…

Credit cards on a banknotes background

A retiree’s sources of money are often described as a three-legged stool: Social Security, pension, and savings. But many seniors’ financial support looks more like a single, sturdy pillar: Social Security. This is shown dramatically in new U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) estimates of just how critical the federal program is to millions of older…