Tail-end Boomer here. I cannot tell you how odd it is to all of a sudden be getting clients that are born in the same decade as me. Weird weird weird...
Charlotte area YMCA's
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Yeah being a person born in 61 it freaked me out a little when my age ins started have dob of 1960.I remember when i first started in this biz the age ins were born in the roaring 1920's haha
The upside being an older single man is now my prospects are better than using Tinder to find dates.haha .The older i get the younger the 65 year olds look relative to my age. sort of like McConaughey ' character in Dazed and Confused
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Not as odd as having MAPD prospects who are young enough to be your daughter. I enrolled a woman who is 27 recently. She heard about us on Instagram.
Using Medicare to meet women.Not as odd as having MAPD prospects who are young enough to be your daughter. I enrolled a woman who is 27 recently. She heard about us on Instagram.
Give em hell Bro.
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puts a new twist on a having a friend with benefits- medicare benefits that is.
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Ever since high school I couldn't wait to sit around Burger King drinking my $.25 coffee with my friends with nothing to do. I also love Prog Rock and 80's pop. I was born in the wrong era.
All of those old farts sitting around Burger King are rookies. You need to up your game.
At least once a week I go to one of the local funeral homes to drink coffee and hang out with my buds. It's actually quite peaceful.
Maybe next year they'll give me the key code to the embalming room.
That AARP forum discussion has a lot of misinformation about what's happening with Renew Active (which is UHC's gym benefit for its Medicare plans). Renew Active comes with most (all?) UHC Advantage plans, and with UHC supplements that include "wellness extras."
Renew Active's network of gyms has both standard and premium gyms, and all gyms were available to both Supplement and Advantage people; the "premium" gyms were generally ones where people were limited to a certain number of classes a month. But starting 1-1-25, premium gyms will be available only to people who have Renew Active via a supplement; Advantage members can join only non-premium gyms.
And at the same time, some premium gyms are dropping out of Renew Active effective 1-1-25. These include all of the Xponential brands (Club Pilates, Stretch Lab, Pure Barre), plus The Exercise Coach, and Orange Theory. But there are still other premium gyms in the network, such as F45 (limited number of classes per month) and Life Time Fitness (available only during non-peak hours).
Now to YMCAs. Renew Active is reclassifying the YMCAs in Charlotte (and in Houston) as premium, which makes them unavailable to Advantage members. But if your Renew Active is via your supplement, those are still available and they don't have any restrictions (like Life Time's limited hours).
The AARP forum discussion turns Renew Active's reclassifying Charlotte's YMCAs as premium (and therefore available only to Renew Active supplement holders) into Renew Active dropping YMCAs along with Club Pilates, etc., and it's simply not true.
Plus, every YMCA decides on its own whether to participate in Renew Active or Silver Sneakers, and they drop out on their own periodically (e.g., the Washington DC Metropolitan YMCA dropped out earlier this year).
And I'll note that the Charlotte YMCAs are not participants in Silver Sneakers, either, for what that's worth.
Thanks for posting what you did. I got back at 1am last night and hadn't actually re-read what was being said and looked at the actual website information, not just the forums, to see what was actually correct. Thanks too for posting that those forums often get things wrong.
