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  Protecting, Maximizing and Recovering Retirement Accounts

  Laurie Samuels, Retirement Planning Attorney, Abednego Wealth Management

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Audience members will receive education on reaching retirement goals and how to protect retirement accounts from a downside market. Abednego Wealth Management, Inc. does not charge for services nor does it ever hold clients’ funds. “We simply educate you on reaching your retirement goals.”

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  Senior Living Myths Unmasked

  Andrea Donovan, President, Andrea Donovan Senior Living Advisors

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  Having toured more than 450 senior communities, Andrea offers advice about what to look for when searching for alternative living for a senior. Her researched facts will demystify the myths.

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  Your Prosperity Picture – A Five Step Program to: Manage your Money, Design Your Life, Create Your Future

  Karen L. DeRose, Certified Financial Planner, DeRose Financial Planning Group

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Women are often conflicted about money. On one hand, they're more financially powerful than they ever have been, according to the Federal Reserve, controlling 51% of all wealth in the United States.1 On the other hand, 60% of them describe their investing and planning skills as "below average."2 MORE >

  "Your Prosperity Picture" seeks to help financial advisors build assets by bridging that divide with an entertaining, interactive, and inspirational approach rarely seen in the industry. Attendees are introduced to the key steps to creating prosperity, participate in five interactive discussions, and work with a unique hands-on visualization tool to help them connect their money with their lives. They leave armed with tools to potentially see personal financial management as a powerful means to a desirable end, see themselves as worthy, capable managers, and see their financial advisor as a valuable partner in helping them get there.

  1. Financial Advisor magazine, "Financial Advisors Need to Focus More on Female Clients," by Mike Byrnes, December 2012. Used with permission.

  2. Real Simple magazine "Women and Money," by Geraldine Sealey, September, 2012.

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  What Happens After the Paychecks Stop? A Retirement Income Primer Seminar

  Roger Smith, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Examine how to budget for retirement expenses, potential sources of retirement income and potential risks such as LTC and health care costs.

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  Home Access for Everyone

  Lea Ann Skogsberg, Founder, Dollars and Sense

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  The number one desire of people as we age is to remain in our own homes. Yet many of us are one mobility impairment away from not even being able to enter or exit our homes. This challenge for society will continue to grow as Baby Boomers age. Most needs are short-term yet most commercial answers require permanent changes to a property making them undesirable to homeowners and impossible for renters. MORE >

  There is a community-based solution to address this growing need to make home accessibility affordable for everyone. If you ever carried anyone into your home for a Holiday meal or experienced even "minor" surgery that affected mobility, you'll know why this is such an important topic.

  Ramps provide access for people with both temporary and long-term mobility issues. Yet while Medicare and Medicaid as well as private insurance programs underwrite the wheelchairs, walkers and assistive devices individuals require for mobility—except in some cases for veterans—there is no standard way to acquire and/or pay for the ramps. This concept, a community-based inventory of modular ramps, seeks to establish a pilot project to demonstrate the value of borrowing (rather than owning) home access products. Rentals respond to occasional as well as temporary needs for residential ramps. Except for the screws, each component is reusable; the units are American made.

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  Non-Profit Business Strategies

  Lea Ann Skogsberg, Founder, Dollars and Sense

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  With 30 years experience, Lea Ann offers customized talks on using social media, blogging, endowment, creating access for middle income donors, fundraising, new business models, grantwriting and trends across sectors.

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  Take the Mystery Out of Selling Your Home

  Dale Tippett, Managing Broker, DALE D. TIPPETT, Licensed Real Estate Managing Broker

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

  Especially if you haven't moved for a long time or feel overwhelmed with change, you will learn how to deal with the challenges home owners face when they are hesitant to sell their homes, even though they know that they should. Join the discussion on what to do and how to do it to make your next move less stressful. MORE >

  We'll talk about the process of selling your home, getting help with your stuff, the professionals involved and more... A must for adult children and Baby Boomers.

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  Hey, Stop drinking that stuff ! Think about what you drink !

  Jim Rabb, Synergy Science

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  Discover why most of the water and beverages we drink can actually have detrimental effects to our health. This eye opening presentation will have you, "thinking about what you're drinking". Once you understand the science behind the liquids we drink daily, you will change the way you look at what you use to hydrate and energize your body with. Learn the simple natural steps that could lead to relief for many health challenges including; Type 2 Diabetes, Acid-Reflux, High-Blood-Presure, Weight-Gain, Elevated Cholesterol, and even Low Energy. MORE >

  Consider the following:
  * 75% of all Americans are chronically dehydrated
  * 37% mistake thirst for hunger pangs
  * Staying properly hydrated can reduce back and joint pain
  * A lack of water is a leading cause of fatigue

  Your group will hear about the importance of consuming hydrogen enriched water to naturally address many health issues.

  Find out why many well know pro athletes have made this water the water of choice and no longer consume sports drinks, tap and even bottled waters.

  Free samples will be made available to your members.

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  The Solution to America’s Health Crisis

  Robert Zoboski, DC, DACO, MS, President, Family Chiropractic Care S.C.

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  By following an individualized three step approach, patients can realize reduction of cardiovascular risk, increased energy, and a much greater quality of life. This presentation also describes a novel concept of redesigning the system of health care delivery in the United States.

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  Unintended Impact: One Athlete’s Journey from Concussions an Amateur Football to CTE Dementia

  Jim Proebstle, Author

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

  Tragic CTE Dementia Outcome from Concussions in Amateur Football Inspires a New Book: As an athlete, Dick was revered; yet, success turned traitor as the concussions received in high school and Big Ten (MSU) football led to a world of confusion, poor decision-making, and confinement defined by a wheelchair in a long-term care facility. In his multiple levels of impaired functioning, the opportunity for Dick to “get it”—life, that is—was over. He just didn’t know it. Dick was my brother. MORE >

  Nobody will remember a backup college quarterback, but Dick’s story bridges the glamour of NFL football—its high-profile athletes and its $billion settlement for players with CTE dementia—and the millions of anonymous amateur football players who may suffer with the same concussion-induced devastation of CTE dementia. Unintended Impact covers the drama from childhood to adulthood, including numerous personal and business episodes that serve as warnings that something had been derailed. In 2015, with today’s focus on CTE, lack of knowledge is not acceptable. Yet in Dick’s life, lack of knowledge was just one of the underlying factors contributing to the heartbreak of his tragedy. How many other Dick Proebstles are there?

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