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13 - Checkbook: 200 Ways to Balance Your Life
by Bret Nicholaus and Paul Lowrie is designed to help readers balance their hectic lives by achieving more personal fulfillment. The 200 suggestions include such tips as spending weekends without looking at your watch, write a one sentence mission statement for your life, and how to get back to the basics of happiness. 176 pages. 1999. $10.95. New World Library, Novato, CA. 1-800-97-BOOKS.
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14 - The Educated Caregiver
is a video series created to ease the burdens caregivers face, and help them provide quality care for their loved ones. Three videos provide caregivers with coping skills for handling emotional situations, hands-on caregiver techniques such as patient transfer, and essential healthcare knowledge such as proper nutrition. $39.95. Life View Resources Inc, P.O. Box 290787, Nashville, TN. 1-800-395-5433.
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15 - The Financing Needs of a Restructured Medicare Program
is a new publication from the National Academy of Social Insurance. Covers the history of Medicare financing, projections of future costs, and proposals for avoiding a financial catastrophe in the next century. For example, the Academy points out that, given current program growth, revenues from taxpayers would need to more than double by year 2030. 12 pages. 1999. Request a free copy from National Academy of Social Insurance, 1776 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 615, Washington, DC 20036.
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16 - Going Abroad: 101 Tips for Mature Travelers
offers readers a carefree way to travel. Includes tips for trip preparation, home security, packing, money conversion, shopping, transportation, customs regulations, fitness, and tipping. Free. Published by Grand Circle Travel, Boston, MA. 1-800-248-3737.
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