54 Ways to Save Money (and Reduce Your Financial Worries)
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Money.
It’s probably the second biggest factor – after health issues – to cause stress, worries and negativity within.
It has certainly been that for me during long periods.
So this year I will from time to time write about dealing with financial stress.
Not only because it can cause so much negativity. But also because healthier and more conscious money habits can help you to achieve many positive things in your life.
For example, saving more money and doing it regularly each month will also allow you to put money into or towards your own goals such as:
Paying o...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - June 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 27th 2019
In this study, we found that cofilin competes with tau for direct microtubule binding in vitro, in cells, and in vivo, which inhibits tau-induced microtubule assembly. Genetic reduction of cofilin mitigates tauopathy and synaptic defects in Tau-P301S mice and movement deficits in tau transgenic C. elegans. The pathogenic effects of cofilin are selectively mediated by activated cofilin, as active but not inactive cofilin selectively interacts with tubulin, destabilizes microtubules, and promotes tauopathy. These results therefore indicate that activated cofilin plays an essential intermediary role in neurotoxic signaling th...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 26, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Pension Industry Will Change Radically, Willingly or Otherwise
Promises to pay at a future date are a dangerous tool in the hands of politicians and state employees, those who suffer little to no personal consequences when past promises are revealed to be based on faulty assumptions and thin air. Either someone ends up paying, usually the taxpayers, or the promises are broken. Pensions are, of course, just such a promise. The pensions industry in the US is a good example of the way in which entitlement schemes run awry even without any sort of external shock to the system, such as large numbers of pension recipients suddenly living 5-10 years longer than the models predict. This seems...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 23, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fixing the care crisis
This report argues that the current system is financially and politically unsustainable, opaque, unfair, and actively discourages local councils from investing in social care and housing for older people. It argues that the care system should adopt the model of the state pension – with the government providing enough support for a decent standard of care via a new Universal Care Entitlement, while encouraging and incentivising people to top up this provision from their savings or housing wealth via a Care Supplement.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 28, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs
Employers ’ motivations and practices: a study of the use of occupational health services
Department of Health and Social Care - The Work and Health Unit (a UK government unit which brings together officials from the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health and Social Care) commissioned Ipsos MORI to conduct qualitative research with employers to understand their motivations and practices when using occupational health (OH) support. Their report looks at: how employers use OH services; why employers use OH services as they do; and why engaged employers do not purchase OH services.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 1, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Consultation response: the National Health Service pension scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019
Department of Health and Social Care - The Department of Health and Social Care consulted on proposals to change NHS pension scheme regulations. The government received almost 1,500 responses to the consultation. This outcome document summarises the consultation findings and the government ’s response.ResponseMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 31, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
A Change in Tactics
This article is not the first to suggest health care as a basic human right. It is recognized as such by developed nations across the globe, but we fail to recognize the tactical value in viewing healthcare as a right. In the US, health care is viewed as a transactional exercise. The economic foundation of health care in this country, the fee for service model, reinforces the concept of healthcare as transactional. When conceived in this way, arguments to improve healthcare are provided in the language of commerce. We argue about cost. We argue about quality. Efforts to improve care become arguments about what changes are ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy healthcare reform Robert Pretzlaff Source Type: blogs
Consultation response: The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019
This report summarises the consultation findings and the government ’s response.ReportDepartment of Health and Social Care - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 5, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Consultations Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 11th 2019
We report that the bone marrow stromal cell senescence is driven by p16INK4a expression. The p16INK4a-expressing senescent stromal cells then feedback to promote AML blast survival and proliferation via the SASP.
Importantly, selective elimination of p16INK4a-positive senescent bone marrow stromal cells in vivo improved the survival of mice with leukemia. Next, we find that the leukemia-driven senescent tumor microenvironment is caused by AML induced NOX2-derived superoxide. Finally, using the p16-3MR mouse model we show that by targeting NOX2 we reduced bone marrow stromal cell senescence and consequently reduced A...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Reporting on the Longevity Leaders Conference
Some of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation folk were at the recent Longevity Leaders conference in London, and wrote up a report on the event. The conference split up into three streams later in the day, one of which is followed here. Being focused on the pensions and life insurance industries as much as biotechnology, there were a lot of people present with minimal exposure to the prospects for rejuvenation and slowing of aging. It was noteworthy to see so many there being newly interested in the topic of treating aging as a medical condition, and motivated to learn more because it is important to their work in other ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 8, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Notes on the Longevity Leaders Event, January 2019
LSX, a life science and biotechnology business networking organization, runs a yearly conference that took place in London this week. As a part of the festivities this year, the organizers added the Longevity Leaders event. This is one of a number of new conference series recently launched, in response to the great influx of funding and interest in the development of means to treat aging. Not all of that is rejuvenation biotechnology after the SENS model of damage repair, but a growing percentage is, even if that is near all a growing fleet of senolytics startups. A few years from now, we'll all have lost count of myriad m...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 7, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Pay for Federal Government Workers
With the backdrop of the shutdown and federal workers going unpaid, theNew York Times published a backgrounder last week on federal compensation. It was a fair and balanced piece and highlighted themesdiscussed in this study on government workers.TheNYT charts government and private sector wage growth. Average federal wages soared during the 1990s and 2000s but have grown more slowly this decade. However, overall federal compensation including benefits has grown briskly in recent years, as I chart below.Here are highlights from theNYT story:Verla Bloomfield has the kind of workplace that seems plucked from a different era....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 23, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
NHS pension scheme: proposed changes to scheme regulations 2019
Department of Health and Social Care -The Department of Health and Social Care is consulting on proposals to change NHS pension scheme regulations. Proposed changes include: introducing a new contribution rate of 20.6 per cent for employers from 1 April 2019; renewing current member contribution rates so that the same rates continue to apply beyond 31 March 2019; providing civil partners and same sex spouses with the same survivor pension rights as widows; and extending the current forfeiture of pension benefits rules.ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social Care - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 18, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Consultations Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Progressive Corporate Governance Reforms
This blog post is part of a larger series on “Stock-Market Short-Termism” (see also my entry onshare-buybacks). I will be assessing one proposed cure, corporate governance reforms, and will argue that it is likely to be iatrogenic. I.On August 15, 2018, Senator Elizabeth Warren formally introduced her “Accountable Capitalism Act”, that would,inter alia,require of all firms generating $1 billion or more in revenue that “no fewer than 40% of its directors are selected by the corporation’s employees.” In mandating that corporations include employeesquastakeholders in the firm ’s major decisions, government wo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Derek Bonett Source Type: blogs
Mission-Hostile Hospital Management: Quieter, but Still Pernicious After All These Years
Hospitals exist to take care of sick people, with the goal of making them better. Hospitals employ and work with health care professionals, again who are sworn to put taking care of patients ahead of all other concerns.However, since we foundedHealth Care Renewal, we have noted striking examples of hospital leaders threatening their hospitals ' fundamental mission and/or health care professionals ' core values, which we dubbedmission-hostile management. We also saw mission-hostile management affecting the broader health care industry, particularly pharmaceutical and device companies. Most recently, the mo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 10, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: hospitals imperial CEO managerialism mission-hostile management perverse incentives Source Type: blogs
