Greg Saffell

Seniors living in King County can now compare county health rankings nationwide. The County Health Rankings are the first set of reports to rank the overall health of every county in all 50 states. The 50 state reports help public health and community leaders, policy-makers, consumers and others ...

Recent studies indicate that senior drivers improve with age and experience does count when you get behind the wheel. I knew that wine improves with age, but driving skills? Younger drivers are believed to have quicker reaction times but drivers with more experience behind the wheel are more awar...

  Seniors Living in Seattle make plans for gifting to their families. I'm not a financial planner or qualified to give financial advice, but I can pass along items of interest to my friends. An interesting idea on gift-giving to your your family crossed my desk that I thought I would share. Paren...

Do you remember how good things used to be? Seniors Living in Seattle and elsewhere seem to respond well to nostalgic images. Today's marketing experts hope you do remember how good things used to be because the trend is to pair nostalgia with their message. Maybe the most obvious attempt to acco...

She wasn't living in a Seattle Assisted Living facility, but just down the road in Long Beach. We have heard stories like this many times before, but it's always fun to hear a new one. You know, the stories about someone passing away and leaving money stuffed in a shoe box or buried in the back y...

Here we are in mid February when the cold, cloudy and rainy days usually provoke a desire to escape to warmer climates, when Hawaii and Mexico beckon daily. Not this February, maybe other parts of the country are still digging out but here in the Puget Sound region of Washington state the sun is ...

Last weekend was the anniversary of the opening of the very first "motel" in America and the world. Originally known as the Milestone Mo-Tel it opened for business on December 12th 1925 in San Luis Obispo, California. The location was chosen because it was about half way between Los Angeles and S...

Kent single family home sales were down 11.5 % in November from October sales figures. Year over year sales improved 30.8% when comparing sold properties from November 2008 to November 2009. November 2009 saw fewer new listings, solds and pendeds than the previous month. The average sold price wa...

Hostess Cupcakes, Twinkies and Pies still look good after all these years. We were near the grocery store check-out lane when I saw an old but familiar friend, Hostess Cupcakes. You know the chocolate cupcakes with the cream-filled centers sold in twin packs everywhere in the world. They still lo...

My wife's birthday was right around the corner so I needed to decide on a gift. We don't go all out on gift-giving usually just something simple to celebrate the event. I decided that a nice pair of cotton pajamas might be just the ticket. I dropped by Nordstroms just when the doors opened for bu...