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charsbewitched
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Life as Babyboomer and Being D
- From: gottitravel
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Babyboomer Travel Trends
Rhonda and Lee live an exciting lifestyle. Lee "retired" two years ago and despite the fact that Rhonda has a disabling arthritic condition, they spend way more time traveling than at home just looking at the wall and aging.Lee and Rhonda are members of the baby boomer set, you know, those folks born right after World War II until about 1964. The baby boomers are an inordinately large group who, as they age, are changing the face of America. Nowhere is this truer than in the travel industry. Further, modern medicine is helping more people live longer as well as helping more people with disabilities take part in all aspects of life, such as accessible travel.
A major fact brought about by baby boomers is that they don't consider travel a luxury; they see travel as a necessity. Even with a disability, baby boomers don't consider themselves "seniors" until they are well into their 70s. They don't hope for accessible travel; they expect it. What this means is that people like Lee and Rhonda aren't comfortable associating with their parents. Group travel packages combining the two generations aren't going to be acceptable. An emphasis on education is a better approach for the travel industry to take in order to woo the baby boomers.
As it turns out, baby boomers are a demanding group, but the businesses that cater to them will do well because the baby boomers have a lot of discretionary income and will spend it for creature comforts because they feel they are worth it - and they are!
Baby boomers see themselves as forever young. Baby boomers want to have fun. Baby boomers want immediate gratification and part of the reason for this is that they try to do too much. Baby boomers put no constraints on where they go for travel.
Whether you are a baby boomer of a baby boomer with a disability, the travel industry is going to become more and more responsive to your needs large and small.
The baby boomers account for 25 percent of the population. However, perhaps you have a disability and think that your options are, or are going to be, limited. The facts say otherwise: you have clout!
Baby boomers with disabilities are a large part of a group that is 55 million strong in the United States and 500 million strong worldwide. Of the 55 million in the states, a survey from 2004 reported that they had a collective income of $200 billion, they took 32 million trips and spent more than $13.6 billion while traveling. Obviously these numbers cannot be ignored by the travel industry.
The trends for the future couldn't look brighter for the baby boomers with disabilities.
First, businesses have begun to get over their irrational fears of providing accessibility. They have found that it adds rather takes away from the environment and it's not just about profit.
Businesses are beginning to provide "intermediate" services such as greeters to help people "settle in" to a location.
Now and in the future, not only will people with disabilities be more prominently made part of the routine clientele, but those with incidental travel needs such as oxygen and walkers will find themselves with needed services and accommodations readily available.
In addition to other reasons for befriending the population of individuals with disabilities, consider the fact that they are extremely loyal and tend to return to those places where they have had a good past experience.
As you age and approach the time when you intend to increase your travel schedule, you are going to find that you can go where you want, when you want and how you want. You will be able to find any desired level of service and expect the options for you to only increase.
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pethealer
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Get TSH Blood Test At Next Mam
- From: windyhair
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This is a note to all women. I urge you to get a TSH blood test on your next visit for a yearly mammogram because 20% of women (1 in 5) have thyroid disease and don't even know it.
Men can get it too, but women are 75% more likely to get it than men.
In 2006 I was diagnosed with Graves disease due to Hyperthyroidism and diffuse toxic goider, an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid. My diagnosis was two years in the making by my country general practitioner as specialists such as Endocrinologists were not available in my small ozark community at that time. Symptoms I had were that my heart was racing, blood pressure was high, I could not sleep at night, I would faint, had pounding headaches, trouble breathing, lost 45 pounds, would see spots before my eyes, and had numbness in my face that came and went.
Then one morning while sitting on the couch my entire face and both arms went completely numb with my heart racing. I called by doctor, who by this time had taken a Cat Scan looking for MS which was negative. She had also taken an earlier blood test but never read the results! The doctor had me come into her office and drew blood again-this time she read the results which was TSH <.005 and Free T4 of 4.94. My thyroid was dumping hormones into my bloodstream at 4 times the normal rate.
I had to have 9.8 millicuries of radioiodine treatment thru nuclear medicine. Again my thyroid was dumping excess hormones into my bloodstream. I then referred myself to a leading endocrinologist 155 miles from my home in the next state. When the endocrinologist read my medical files, she told me the information was in my file all along and that I could of had a heart attack or stroke being left untreated for as long as it was. She immediately ordered another RI treatment of 25 millicuries radioiodine.
But that wasn't the end of my dilemma. After Radioiodine treatment I had hair loss, was plunged from hyperthyroidism into a state of hypothyroidism (the complete opposite but treatable condition).
My entire family has autoimmune disase of one form or another. There are approximately 150 in the family of autoimmune diseases and from what I've learned, there is usually family clustering. What is family clustering? This means it is carried in your genes and something in the environment triggers it.
If one sibling has autoimmune disease, chances are good that another sibling will get it as well, but not necessarily the same disease. In my families case, my sister and I have Graves disease due to hyperthyroidism, my brother has Multiple Scerosis (MS), and my niece has Graves disease.
A simple blood test to check for TSH is all that's required to check for thyroid disease, both hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. I urge every women to do this. It could save your life!
Good resources are The Thyroid Foundation of America, Inc. at http://www.allthyroid.org and
American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association at http://www.aarda.orgT hey can also refer you to leading specialists in your area.
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bluetribe
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