Just yesterday a friend witnessed a personal story of elder abuse and FBI fraud. The perpetrators were pretending to be the FBI. I wonder how many other recent fraud stories there are that we won’t here about.

 

Fraud Scams, Stories Abound – Take Notice!

 

If you think the FBI is not busy, take a look at this page showing successful investigations that resulted in convictions so far in 2019. Astounding, and with millions of dollars in fines for those in prison.

The scope of these scams are truly startling. We don’t hear about them on the evening news. They include:

• Internet donor fraud
• Mortgage fraud
• Lottery fraud
• Health care fraud
• Government contract in Afghanistan fraud
• Bank fraud
• Counterfeit money operation

I could go on, and the first page on that link above is one hundred out of over nine thousand, as of today. You could read the stories for a month!.

 

In Her Backyard

 

Gail Bernstein, my generous friend I’m staying with while my broken leg heals, employs a handy man, a skilled senior who lives in his trailer and boon docks around town. He lives well enough, judging from the clean motor home and Dodge Ram that pulls it.

We don’t know his full story, but he’s not down and out and he himself looks well kept.

Yesterday when Gail went out back to check on his day of work in a backyard artisan shed, he was shaking like a leaf.

He had just received a phone call, allegedly from the FBI. They were on their way to pick him up.

The person calling him stated that he was a victim of identity theft. It involved his ex, and also involved theft and a murder.

He claimed that the FBI had frozen his bank accounts, and his Social Security benefits.

Most people would be shocked by this information. This senior was rattled and Gail and I were astounded.

Elder Fraud

 

“The FBI has opened 66 economic crime investigations related to elder fraud since March 1, 2018″…”
Its data shows confidence fraud and romance scams aimed at the elderly
accounted for more than $184 million in losses over the past year.” – Results of Elder Fraud Sweep Announced

This man’s life could have fallen apart quickly if he was detained for a couple of weeks, or even days. A boon docker, his home and vehicle would have been impounded, building up about an eighty dollar a day bill. Plus he would not be getting his mail concerning its whereabouts in a timely fashion.

Yes, he could lose everything, fast.

We don’t really know this person, but we felt for him.

The situation seemed drastic. Law enforcement certainly would need to establish that he wasn’t a willing participant in the fraud. It would need to verify his ID details and whereabouts during the criminal activities.

And we could do nothing to help. Gail could only wait to see if he showed up for the next day, or not.

It Is A Scam

 

The following day he showed up. He told Gail that he had called his son who lives in another state, and he looked up the situation and verified it is a scam.

This man is linked to the web by his phone but does not have a handy way of getting online with a computer.

(I know from using the library in a large city, how many seniors and disabled folks practically live there all day, to use the computers.

You can see from the cars parked outside that some of them live in their vehicles. What a sad situation in this wealthy country.)

Just imagine if these scammers had stayed on him and demanded that he text his SS number, birth date, et al, to their office. And then he did.

Fortunately that didn’t happen. I wonder how many terrified seniors did!

Have any of them had heart attacks or strokes over this? Have they lost their life savings?

Scammed People Are Not Stupid

 

Senior generations were raised to respect authority and trust people in official positions. That makes them easy prey for scammers. It is almost incomprehensible the degree of depravity that goes on these days, facilitated by data mining by “respectable” businesses.

“The number of defendants, victims, and alleged financial losses exceeded last year’s figures, when the Department of Justice announced charges against more than 250 subjects and losses of more than $600 million.” – from the linked Elder Abuse article above.

Six hundred million!

When I wrote my article “Reverse Mortgage Risks” I wanted to warn seniors about the possibility of losing their homes, or signing up for an expensive and unfair loan. And, there are reverse mortgage scams.

 

I had no idea of the frauds going on.

My article Senior Poverty Statistics discusses the numbers and recommends the best place for a person to learn how to write a blog for money, just like this one you’re reading.

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You will not be asked for a payment method, or any other personal information other than your name and email address.

That’s pretty easy, isn’t it?

Thinking more about Gail’s employee, who is strong and can still work, that isn’t every senior. How long will he be able to earn money? What if he didn’t have family?

Social security or disability benefits can pay for groceries, gas, and sundries. It will not pay for a roof over one’s head. The homeless numbers in this country prove that, and many are seniors.

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It is an ideal job for seniors and disabled people who cannot leave home to work.

 

 

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Related material:

Reverse Mortgage Risks

Do you know anyone who has been scammed financially? Please do tell, as these recent fraud stories must be told! Use the comment box below.

 

The value of bone broth has been recognized throughout recorded history in every culture I’ve been able to read about. Bone marrow broth benefits include the release of collagen, to restore soft tissues in the body after accidents or other injury.

Bone Broth Recipe For A Slow Cooker

 

I am specifically referring here, to an electric slow cooker, or crock pot, that you can leave cooking while you’re out of the home.

Bone broth can be slow cooked on the stove. I tend to write for working people, whether senior or not, and I certainly don’t recommend you leaving the stove on when you’re not home.

Here is a video telling you how to use your slow cooker for making bone broth.

The Naturopath physician explains that the broth benefits include:

• Stimulating your immune system
• Provides concentrated protein
• Detoxes the body/is a cleansing food without fasting

And in the spirit of this blog, which is about Affiliate Marketing, here are crock pots to view, presented as you will when you embark on your own marketing online journey.

 

 

Those products are linked to Amazon. If a reader here clicks on the images, and buys one, I will get a commission from Amazon for the referral.

I will tell you, for your blog, to instruct the reader to “CLICK HERE” or “CLICK ON THE IMAGE” to see the details, or learn more.

Blogging For Money And Health Benefits

 

This blog’s purpose is to show you where to go for the best training available on the web to learn site building for business.

To teach you how to blog for:

• Extra income/full time income
• A better life/health benefits
• Independence for any age person, and especially in your over 60 years
• Extra income if you live on disability benefits/cannot leave your home to work
• Self expression, sharing information, and wouldn’t mind your site paying for itself

 

For example, I’ve wriiten an article focused on health – “Health Benefits Of Working At Home“. You can click on that title and you’ll end up on a new page, and this one will stay open.

In my article “I Love My Work At Home Job“, I give you lots of ideas, if you think you can’t write.

A third article covers these topics:

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• How To Make Money Without Leaving The House
• Make Money While Traveling Around The World
• Make Money While Traveling In Your Rv
• Retirement RV Living

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More Bone Broth Benefits

 

“You can get more collagen by eating wild-caught salmon, as well as eggs
and avocados. But bone broth is where you’ll get the biggest collagen
bang for your buck.” – Dr. Al Sears

Collagen not only enhances your skin and connective tissues, but it supports a body part called the
“extracellular matrix” (ECM) which controls the communication between your immune system and your nervous system.

“In biology, the extracellular matrix (ECM) is a three-dimensional network of extracellular macromolecules, such as collagen, enzymes, and glycoproteins, that provide structural and biochemical support of surrounding cells. Because multicellularity evolved independently in different multicellular lineages, the composition of ECM varies between multicellular structures; however, cell adhesion, cell-to-cell communication and differentiation are commonfunctions of the ECM”

– Wikipedia

The ECM is made of proteins such as collagen and elastin. Its health can be damaged by chronic pain. The ECM tissue in the brain can become compromised. This is a little complicated and involves the memory of pain.

Yet this damage can be reversed.

If you can consume more collagen the repair of the ECM will also result in a reduction of pain. Collagen doesn’t just support soft tissues, but builds bone matrix too.

There Is More To Bone Broth

 

“Chinese research on bone broth revealed that the calcium present in the
bones is useful in controlling pain and inflammation, cramps, muscle
spasms, delusions, depression, insomnia, irritability, hyperactivity,
anxiety, palpitations, hypertension, high cholesterol, allergies,
brittle nails, periodontal and dental disease, pica, rickets,
osteomalacia, osteoporosis and any situation that creates bone loss such
as aging, immobilisation, postmenopause, and caffeine.”

That is pretty impressive, don’t you think? And that quote is from an article about broth made from cow hooves.

Many people with leaky gut problems are encouraged to make bone broth, as it has a healing affect on the gut lining. It also prevents parasites from clinging to the gut, and they can be excreted.

Cow hooves can be purchased stripped and cleaned. In fact, the hooves are removed, and the cut is from the heel to the knee. Some recommend that they soak them for forty-eight hours, with the water being changed frequently.

Simmering over ten hours, up to forty-eight hours (per the video above) is reccommeded. Condiments and spices can be added in the final stages.

Armenians have their own recipe and use this health-laden broth for a social ceremony. Blogger Hairenik has written a colorful account of that HERE.

 

Is Bone Broth Anti-Inflammatory?

 

Bone marrow broth is a traditional, used for centuries, anti-inflammatory remedy. It can affect any suffering tissue in the body. It can be added to your physician recommended treatments for:

• Sprains, strains, breaks and impacts
• Joint and muscle pain/arthritis
• Leaky gut and other related gastrointestinal discomforts, including food allergies
• Dry, flaky and cracking skin
• For some, improved hair growth and thickness

More reference material:

Homemade Bone Broths for Healing, Including Fighting the Flu

18 Amazing Health Benefits Of Bone Broth – Louise Hay

“consuming bone broth during a respiratory infection reduces the number of white blood cells”

 

I will be making pots of the broth and freezing in two pint tubs. Wouldn’t this be handy to have in the freezer for when you feel a cold coming on? Or a flu or cough?

This is so easy to give to children when they start complaining about feeling sick or feverish.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they served this in senior homes and rehabilitation centers instead of that boxed frozen food?

Shouldn’t your orthopedic doc be handing out the recipe with your other discharge papers? Or your internist? Seriously!

Have you tried making bone broth? Do you remember your parents or grandparents making it? I am curious, so please do share in the comment box below.

I recommend fresh made foods to be consumed whenever possible. But right now I do have a broken bone and am staying at a friend’s, to avoid stairs. And I just found this, grass fed sourced beef collagen. It will do for now.

(If you want vegetarian gelatin CLICK HERE.)

 

Hello again readers, and thanks for visiting again today. While this is a home blogging business focused site, I recently have had my thoughts pinned on some personal safety tips for the elderly living alone.

What Brought That On?

 

I fell on icy stairs and broke a bone. It’s winter here, and the driveway, sidewalks and stairs should have been rapidly attended to. Anyone who lives in a winter clime knows that temperature fluctuations cause slush to freeze, and then become hidden under new snow.

I knew that! I thought of staying at home for a couple of hours to see if the snow would stop, if the sun would come out, and if the snow would start melting.

But, I take care of a more senior person, and I decided to tackle the day. I was very careful descending the stairs, and luckily I was hanging onto the railing when my foot shot out from under me.

Has something like that ever happened to you? You don’t have to be a senior for that to happen. For anyone, it’s a life change in a nano second.

And hopefully not too drastic.

Now That You’re Older Put Yourself First

 

Most of us are brought up to be considerate of others and help as needed, right? As a society we depend on each other to survive and thrive. Whether it’s family or friends, don’t we like to think we make ourselves available to people in need?

We take care of our spouses children, and eventually parents, and help with other people’s families too. Who doesn’t need a community and a network of safety nets?

I am not frail or lacking in surefooted steps, or balance. But accidents circumvent all that, don’t they?

My elderly would not have minded a bit if I had called and cancelled that day. Silly me.

Or, socially programmed me? And maybe you too?

We don’t want to feel we let someone down.

We want to be loyal to our values.

From a strict upbringing, we don’t want to be seen betraying our traditional dictates.

Altruists will just do the helpful thing without thinking it over.

Can you relate to those ideas?

I can’t claim to be altruistic but I do feel for someone who is worse off than I am. paralyzed on one side.

That’s what prompted me to forge ahead in the less than optimal conditions.

Don’t do that!

My Full Time Blog Business – I’m Getting There!

 

Wouldn’t you love to make a comfortable income working on your computer? I am slowly getting there, and I certainly won’t give up!

All the posts on this blog are written for you, to inspire your ideas and know-how. To help you imagine what you might write a blog about.

Got a life long hobby that you love talking about? Talk to me!

You can earn commissions recommending products related to your hobby. Items that can be purchased on Amazon, at Walmart, Target, Home Depot and more.

After years of patching together numerous course on different aspects of this earning method called affiliate marketing, I discovered Wealthy Affiliate. It is an online training community where all the requirements of writing a good blog are assembled in order, with do-it-as-you-go classes.

Here are some relevant articles that will explain more.

How To Build A Blog With WordPress

How To Learn Online Marketing For Seniors

I Want To Work For Myself What Should I Do

 

Understand Your Healthcare System

 

I didn’t figure out till five days later that I never even saw a medical doctor at the Adventist Health ER, the only one in town. I saw an FNP according to my discharge papers. What is that? I suppose the fact that I didn’t know means I have been lucky enough not to end up there earlier, and am inexperienced. 

 A moment of gratitude for that! At this web page, I learned the following.

“Education: The FNP typically has a BSN (Bachelor’s
of Science in Nursing) and an MSN (Masters of Science in Nursing). The
Master’s program typically takes 1-2 years, therefore the total
schooling post high school is 5-6 years.

Roles:

• take health histories and provide examinations
• diagnose and treat common illnesses and conditions
• order appropriate diagnostic tests
• interpret x-rays and lab results
• prescribe and manage medications and other therapies
• provide health teaching and counseling
• refer patients to specialists as needed”

This explains my puzzlement as to why I could not get a cast or boot before discharge. I thought I was talking to a medical doctor and I thought he was being a weenie and just not making a decision. I knew this would lead to one or two follow up appointments and I wanted to keep it simple!

I worried about when I would get back to work. I bet you would have been too, right? How many weeks/months would I be on crutches?. If you have used crutches you know what a workout that is!

If you’ve never used crutches, here are two things you’ll be told:

• Put your weight on your hands, not your armpits
• Place your good foot between the crutches, not ahead of them.

Once I got home I quickly learned:

• Push all the area rugs out of the way because they may slide
• Wear something with pockets – you have no hands!
• Use a bag or backpack to push water, food, and refreshed ice pack from the kitchen to your comfy place

If someone is there with you, let them do it all – it’s a hassle!

If someone is coming over to help, make a list so you don’t forget that one thing

Really important – posture – when you put your good foot down make a postural plumb line

So what is that? I am a retired ballet dancer/teacher. When my sciatic nerve and hip muscle started flaming up, I knew I was doing something wrong. Here is a brief video showing you good posture. You don’t have to watch it all, the first minute explains it.

If you get straight after every step, relax your shoulders and take a deep breath, you will benefit greatly.

You will still be sore from the initial few days of unexpected exertion, but you’ll be all right, in most cases.

Conclusion – The Best Work Is At Home

 

I hope you don’t slip and fall, ever. I am making extra income working at home, and my goal is a comfortable (or more!) monthly revenue. I will then never feel obliged to leave the house in bad and potentially dangerous conditions.

I recommend you do  a little thinking about personal safety tips seniors need to consider. Know what your boundaries (that you deserve!) might be in difficult situations.

If you’d like to learn with a no-cost experiment in building a blog,

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Have you tried blogging? How did you learn? We’d love to hear your story, just use the comment box below.

 

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