ABOUT THE AUTHORS[JR1](63+ YEARS MARRIED, 80+ YEARS HEALTHY, HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS)
[JR1 Jerry Rhoads, a young 83, has had over 60 years’ experience in health care. He is a CPA and a licensed nursing home administrator. He has owned an accounting firm, a consulting business and a software business servicing long term care and skilled nursing homes. Considered an expert in Medicare and Medicaid regulations and management of operations. He has authored nine health care related books. Shari Rhoads a younger 82, is a trained cosmetologist, nursing home owner, administrator and business partner with Jerry and their son Kip Rhoads a, computer expert, for thirty years.
She is also Jerry’s editor of sixteen books and is the mother of four grown children, twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandsons and three great-granddaughters. All the while finding time to paint, dance stay fit and planning to extend she. and Jerry’s marriage well beyond their 63rd wedding anniversary November 27, 2022. Making their marriage one in a million in this millennium.
They and their son Kip, computer technology expert, also have owned three skilled nursing facilities and consulted with 140 nursing homes and managed four others during their 40 years specializing in nursing home operations and Government regulations concerning Medicare and Medicaid. The nursing homes were sold 2015 after restoring them and converting them to All-American Care Restorative Care Model. The plans for those projects are chronicled in Jerry and Shari’s books ... The Boomer’s Are Coming, Failing Government Taketh Away, Health Care for All, America in the Red Zone, American Enterprise Manifesto, Americana a novel revisiting George Orwell’s 1984, Remedy Elder-cide, Retore Elder Pride, and five Wonders of the World poetry books.
Also, as a memoir, to commensurate our 63-year marriage, a one in million odds, and our real (biological) age score 20 years younger than our chronological age of 80+, we want to reveal our 12 marriage vows and habits that have enabled us to get this far. We hope it will be a template for relationships forming lifestyles that solve marital problems that lead to chronic aging.
Over 50% of all marriages (2.4 million per year) result in divorce. And 117 million Americans have at least one chronic disease diagnosis code. 25 % have 1 to 4 comorbidity chronic diseases. Also, the researchers have found that a happy marriage contributes to a longer, healthier, and stronger life. So, staying married is number one for aging healthy. The rest are related to life styles, without exercise, food selection and habits that cause an unhealthy immune system, susceptible to viruses such as Covid-19 and its variants. Because American is being run by Public Health care as a one payor system called a monopsony ... buyer of last resort.
Especially, during the pandemic of 2020/21 the overall health of Americans is not good. Chronic disease and chronic aging are subjects we deal with in our book. Currently 117 million Americans suffer from one or more chronic illnesses traceable to aberrant lifestyles. Researches attribute better health to married couples who avoid behavioral problems linked to divorce. The 12 marriage vows and habits covered in our books are based on defining the root cause of the lifestyle problems and proposes 12 solutions for staying married and healthy getting happiness that Shari and I got over in our 60+ years of marriage.
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