Boomers & Beyond

How You Can Grow Social Security Benefits Beyond Retirement Age

By REBECCA MILLER For more and more Americans, reaching retirement age no longer means the end of an active working life. Many people are choosing to work past the age of 65, according to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you’re willing and able, maintaining gainful employment later in life could go a long way toward ensuring a secure future for you and your family. Besides providing you with additional income to pay your bills, extending your employment or working for yourself could boost your lifetime Social Security benefits. Here’s how: Waiting to ...

Family Service Offers Wide Range of Programs

By LINDA COMINS Staff Writer Painting, dancing, T’ai Chi, wine tasting, bingo — those are just some of the activities awaiting boomers and older folks at Family Service-Upper Ohio Valley. Along with all the fun, the nonprofit agency’s senior services division continues to present ...

Elmhurst Will Hold Men’s Night Info Picnic

Elmhurst, The House of Friendship in Wheeling will hold a casual Men’s Night picnic from 4:30-6:30 p.m. June 1 for seniors interested in retirement living as provided by the licensed assisted living residence. “We’re inviting area male seniors to join us around the cooler on our patio ...

Out & About

May 18 — Taste of the Market, to benefit Wheeling Health Right and King’s Daughters, at Centre Market, 2200 Market St., Wheeling, 6-8 p.m. May 18 — Family Service-Upper Ohio Valley’s spring dinner-dance, White Palace, Wheeling Park, dinner, 6 p.m.; dancing, 7-10 p.m. May 18-June 23 — Exhibition, “Rodney Gordon: Broadway Milliner and Mask Maker,” at Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center, 1330 National Road, Wheeling, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, free. May 18-30 — Art exhibitions, work by Beth Nash in Studio Gallery and ...

Welty Residents Spend Time With Baby Animals

Why do most people love small animals? The Harris Poll found a few years ago that 90 percent of pet owners consider their dogs and cats to be members of the family. Residents of Welty Home, an assisted living option in Wheeling, find pet visits to be a highlight of their activities ...

Many Benefits of Revocable Trust

Even without the ability to protect assets from long-term care expenses the way an irrevocable trust can, a revocable trust can still be an extremely effective tool in an individual’s estate plan. First and foremost, a revocable trust is an excellent mechanism to efficiently and expeditiously transfer assets to your loved ones. By placing assets into a revocable trust, an individual avoids having to go through the expensive, time-consuming and public process of probating a person’s estate for those specific assets. The probate process can take several months to complete with ...