As more employers get rid of their commitment to health care for 
people who retire, more workers fear what will happen to them in their senior years. Some firm’s have forgotten the adage that: Taking care of health is taking care of business. Part of the problem is the escalating costs of health care and the inequitable distribution of profits – which often seem to fall in favor of big business. Fortune 500 Companies often claim they cannot keep pace and still hold their market share.
What is the result? Fear and cynicism has jarred retirees and this problem may be bigger than the fact that too many are retiring without adequate health coverage. Fear and discouragement can cause people’s health to turn downward in a fast spiraling direction – because it emits hormones such as cortisol which lowers the immune systems. So the same infections that content people are exposed to… can bring down a person trapped in fear or disappointment.
There are solutions to health care problems. Those who by-pass the shortage of funds and maintain their own emotional health do a few things differently. They tend to:
Plan ahead a put a fund aside
- Talk to experts to get ideas for health plans they can access
- Take better care of the health in ways that will impact their quality of life in later years
- Stay positive in spite of the gloom being passed around at some businesses
- Help others deal with their health futures and thereby spike their health simply by getting beyond themselves
What are you doing to ensure your quality of life at the end…? Any advice for the rest of us?
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