Mitigating Health Care Costs – Steps
The following are some of the steps that many experts feel will help seniors and really anyone improve their overall health as well as maintaining a healthy lifestyle during your senior retirement years. If you are worried about having sufficient money set aside for your health care costs in your senior years, these are some of the steps you can take to improve your overall health and reduce the amount of health care that will be needed. Here they are in no particular order:
- Maintain the proper weight for your frame and age.
- Always eat a healthy diet following the national food guide.
- Stop smoking
- If you drink do so in moderation
- If you are overweight now take steps to lose weight and get down to the proper level that you are supposed to be at for your age.
- Exercise on a daily basis, whether it is a walk around the block, the gym or swimming
- Taylor exercises to your capabilities and lifestyle.
- Maintain an excellent circle of friends that you see on a daily basis.
- Build and maintain a healthy social life
- Maintain contact with family and take the time to enjoy every day
While some of these may seem obvious, many of us do not stay focused on all of these issues and let exercise slip for example. In time, poor body fitness will catch up with us and we will pay the consequences with high health care costs. Take the steps now to make sure that this does not happen to you.
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