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Attention all men: If you want to live into your 80s and beyond, here are nine things you need to know:

Get a grip – and a good education. Get married. Don’t gain weight.

These are some of the keys to long life for boomer men, according to a US study.

If you enjoy traveling, whether it's a trip to visit the grandkids, take a cruise, or simply explore a new destination, here are 10 important tips to consider:

1. Consider the destination and travel options. You probably want your trip to fulfill a dream, not to find a cheap trip.

The medium is the message. Marshall McLuhan

North America's summer reading has been launched. Head out to the beach, pool, or cottage, sporting a sleek, new e-reader. The prolific expansion of digital devices has revolutionized the reading sizzle, providing downloaded palm-size fare. E-readers offer convenience, superior deliverability, and anonymity.

On the print side, books offer fanciful cover art in a public domain. Readers advertise their cultural choices. Books bring out the extrovert, a proclamation of personal taste.

There are many titles to describe the salesperson who works to fill your communities, such as, marketing representative, sales manager, and the most recent descriptor is lifestyle consultant. What do these terms really mean to the senior who is considering sharing the rest of their happy, healthy life with you?

In our training sessions with associates of retirement community housing, we are approached by individuals who wish to improve their conversational skills with senior residents or patients. Sometimes, they want to reduce their own accents, pronounce words better and improve their interpersonal speech.

The following tips are a collection of techniques used in my speech training sessions for senior living staffs:

Sunrise Senior Living is one of the premier providers of senior living services. Sunrise currently operates more than 440 senior living communities throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany with a combined resident capacity of more than 52,000. Sunrise employs more than 38,000 team members dedicated to serving seniors.

Sunrise has been caring for and serving seniors since 1981. Founders Paul and Terry Klaassen started with a simple vision — to create senior living that champions quality of life for all seniors.