HEALTH - Can Cannabis Help?
Older Patients Using Medical Cannabis ‘Experience Considerable Improvement In Health And Well-Being,’ Study Finds

A new study on the impacts of medical marijuana on older adults finds that cannabis-based products may provide multiple therapeutic benefits for the demographic, including for health, well-being, sleep and mood.

Authors also observed “sizable reductions in pain severity and pain interference among older aged patients [reporting] chronic pain as their primary condition.”

The research, published this week in the journal Drugs and Aging, is meant to address what authors call “a general paucity of high quality research” around cannabis and older adults “and a common methodological practice of excluding those aged over 65 years from clinical trials” at a time when older patients are increasingly turning to medical marijuana for relief..
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Steven Van Zandt Jokes That the Key to His Successful 40-Year Marriage with Maureen Is 'Staying Apart

They say behind every great man is a great woman — and in Steven Van Zandt's case, that's his wife Maureen.

In the HBO documentary Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival on June 8, fans will get an inside look at the E Street Band member's marriage to Maureen.

Speaking to PEOPLE, the rocker, 73, revealed the key to keeping their relationship strong after 40 years of marriage.

"As I often say, the key to staying together is stay apart. We've been together, God, what is it now, 40-plus years and probably have spent about 10 years of that together out of the 40, because I'm always on the road. So, you go home, and it's always new again," the "Men Without Women" singer says.

While Steven was out on the road, Maureen, 72, who's an actor and a former ballerina, kept busy with her own projects. He continues, "I think finding a way to keep

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FINANCE AND INVESTING TIPS FOR THE SANDWICH GENERATION

Can you afford to buy a home while supporting parents and children?

A Realtor.com survey on the ‘sandwich generation’ finds differing opinions on whether these situations help or hurt homebuying prospects
With housing markets across the country dealing with a lack of inventory and rapidly rising prices, working-age adults who let their parents live with them is an increasingly common situation. It’s intended to limit the total amount of expenses for one of the involved parties.

The impact on a working-age adult’s ability to buy a home or pay a mortgage varies. That’s according to a new survey from Realtor.com that shows split opinions on whether it helps or hurts.

Realtor.com calls these people the “sandwich generation,” defined as those supporting both their parents and children under the age of 18. Millennials make up 36% of this generation, Generation Z is 30%, Generation X is 16% and baby boomers are 17%.

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YOUR KIDS

What Day-care Workers and Preschool Teachers Think About Their Jobs

Six women get candid on dwindling enrollment, priced-out parents, and crying kids.
We are more than child-care providers. We are raising these children.”

Alisalda Coronado is a Spanish-speaking provider at Joallys Family Group Daycare, an in-home day care in the Bronx that currently serves 12 families with 15 children, ages 1 to 12, among them.

This child-care environment is a lovely home. We have two rooms with a small table and chairs for meals and art projects, a play kitchen, a reading rug, and cribs for the babies. It’s small, but we keep it very clean. The child is given affection, respect, love, dedication. He is fed. He is protected. The older kids come after school. The little ones come at 7:30 a.m. and leave at 5:30 p.m.

The majority of our mothers are home health aides, immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Salvador, Gambia. As a mother, as a Latina, I know what it’s like for them. Many of these families leave grandparents and parents in the Dominican Republic or in Africa, and they have to send them an allowance for their medicines.

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CARING FOR PARENTS

Enabling Your Family Could Have You Permanently Footing Their Bills

he recession, inflation and COVID-19 have made a bad situation worse. Financial dependency now has aging parents living with their adult children and their adult children footing the bill for their parent’s ill-planned retirement. All while also trying to raise kids, buy a house, pay off student loans and save for their own retirement. The result? A continuous cycle of financial dependency based on generational enablement.

Below we’ll look at what is called the “sandwich generation,” how financial burdens from parents and children put strain on this cohort and how a financial advisor can help you break the cycle.

What Is the Sandwich Generation?

The sandwich generation is comprised of adults who are caring for kids of their own who are still under the age of 18 while providing care and/or financial support to their aging parents. This typically is in addition to their own financial responsibilities such as paying off debt (student loans, mortgage, etc.), saving for their kid’s college education and socking away money for their own retirement.
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YOUR JOB

How summer heats up office tensions

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