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Healthy Seniors -
   AOA Information for African American Elders
   Blacks a growing part of retirement migration south
   Exercise and Nutrition: The Real Fountains of Youth
   Health Tip: Playing Golf with Arthritis
   Implanted Defibrillators Found Cost-Effective
   Medicare: A Guide to Prescription Drug Coverage
   Medicare: Basic Information
   Medicare: Common Situations
   Medicare: Landscape of Local Plans State-by-State Breakdown
   Medicare: Things to Consider
   Older Americans Reluctant to Use Sleep Meds: Survey
Medicare Enrollees Save Over $600

(BlackDoctor.org) -- With the Annual Enrollment Period for Medicare Part D beginning on November 15, CVS/pharmacy and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) are urging older adults and their caregivers to review their Medicare Part D options in order to find the lowest cost plan that meets their needs.

Confusion around the number and variety of prescription drug plans often becomes a barrier to identifying and selecting the most cost effective plan. Free online tools like the CVS/pharmacy

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Elderly Black Men Less Likely To Get Tested For Prostate Cancer

(BlackDoctor.org) -- Elderly African American men are less likely to get tested for prostate cancer than elderly white men, according to an article in the September 27 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

According to the article, major racial differences exist in prostate cancer incidence and death rates in the United States. African American men are 60 percent more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than white men and twice as likely

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Vigorous Exercise Can Help Seniors Avoid Disability

(BlackDoctor.org) -- Healthy seniors who are physically active and exercise for more than 60 minutes each week can lessen their chances of disability as they age, finds a new long-term study.

“This study contributes to the large body of scientific evidence supporting the importance of continuing to be physical active over one’s life,” said lead author Bonnie Bruce, of the division of immunology and rheumatology at Stanford

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Seniors And Diabetes

(BlackDoctor.org) -- It should come as no surprise to any of us to hear that diabetes is one of the top contributors to death in America today. Notice I said America, not the world. You see, here in America we have skyrocketing diabetes rates among almost every segment of the population: women, men, children and even the elderly.

Large amounts of muscle fat or abdominal fat may put elderly men and women with normal body weight at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. Even though they're not

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