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5 Reasons to Love 55+ Active Adult Living
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he number one reason people choose the Active Adult Lifestyle is low or maintenance-free homes. Most communities HOA dues include exterior lawn maintenance and sometimes interior maintenance. Number Two is sense of community and making new friends. Everyone is in a similar phase of their lives having worked for many years, their families are raised, and they are ready to enjoy their retirement years. It is easy to make new friends in this environment. Reasons Three, and Four go together. What better way to enjoy your new friends and promote health and well being than using number three; the extensive amenities most Active Adult Communities provide; pools, outdoor and often indoor heated, pickle ball, bocce, shuffleboard, tennis, horseshoe and other venues. There are also clubhouses with, game rooms, kitchens, libraries, gyms, and craft rooms and wood working shops and art studios, community gardens, etc. Reason 4 is the activities 55+ Active Adult Living promotes. These activities can be resident organized and driven or the community may have an activities director. Everything from card and board games, clubs such as book, bible study, hiking, bicycle, cooking, dinner, knitting, art, etc. Educational opportunities like learning a new language, travel, politics, motivational speakers, and more. Fitness options range from Zumba, Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi to Water Aerobics. The fifth reason to embrace the 55+ Active Adult Lifestyle is the homes are designed with seniors in mind. Most homes are one level, wider door frames, zero or low entry showers, comfort height toilets and counters, lever handles on doors and other features to help seniors age in place. Keep in mind the types and kinds of activities and amenities vary by community.
Tinnitus: What is It?
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hat is Tinnitus? Tinnitus is a sound that is perceived without an external stimulus. It is often a buzz, ring, static, crickets, or thumping sound heard by a person that other people do not hear. Tinnitus is most often due to overactive nerves that are no longer receiving input due to a loss of hearing, much like that of a phantom limb pain. Tinnitus can also be a symptom of medication or other health concerns such as; Ménière’s Disease, sinus Tinnitus in quiet is like a pressure, Barometric Trauma, candle in a dark room. A or Temporomandibular Joint candle seems bright in the Disorder. No matter what dark, just like the tinnitus the cause is, the result is seems louder in quiet. an annoying sound that can become extremely distressing without treatment. If something is advertised to “cure” tinnitus, it often attempts to treat what is creating the tinnitus in the first place. The complex component is determining A candle in a lit room is where the tinnitus is just as bright as before, but coming from and what the not as noticeable. In the cause is. With a thorough same way, tinnitus is not evaluation there are tinnitus as noticeable when there treatments available that is other noise. Treatment make the tinnitus less uses pleasant, masking noticeable and problematic. sound to diminish the Now, with an understanding perception of tinnitus. of what Tinnitus is, take this information to your audiologist to find out the best steps to treat it and find relief. Carolina Hearing and Tinnitus Mooresville | 704-664-7277 114 Morlake Dr. Ste. 101A Mooresville, NC 28117
Karen Spell, Broker, SRES, J.D., 55+ Community Expert Helen Adams Realty 321-279-1384 kspell@helenadamsrealty.com PurplePineappleRE-NC.com
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Juli Rossi, AuD Doctor of Audiology
Sarah K. Black, AuD Doctor of Audiology
North Wilksboro 336-838-9530 400 8th St. N. Wliksboro, NC 28659 Statesville | 704-872-1670 703 Bryant St. Statesville, NC 28677
