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Medicine for
middle-age
on the rise
United Press International
[lake BUENA VISTA, Fla. —
Morris Notelovitz, an expert in the
field of'middle age, is 49 and cringes
at the thought of being 20 again.
HWhat Notelovitz shouts from the
| ■ountaintops is acceptance — and
enjoyment — of middle life. As a gy
necologist, Notelovitz specifically
targets menopause as the main prob
lem for women.
■ Notelovitz, a University of Florida
professor, is chairman of the Inter
national Congress on the Meno
pause. The congress, which at-
j tfctted 500 experts in the field,
recently met to try to dispel the
“myths” surrounding menopause
and middle age.
JThe experts admit the human
bodv undergoes many changes as
people approach and enter middle
age However, people no longer
must sit back and take what life
throws their way, the new theory
goes.
B“0nce you accept a new lifestyle,
age almost becomes irrelevant,” said
Notelovitz.
I’ Regular exercise, appropriate diet
and moderation in everything
resent the foundation for a life
change, Notelovitz said,
p He said such simple measures can
help stave off cardiovascular prob
lems, diabetes and even osteoporo
sis, a crippling bone-thinning disease
that primarily af fects women after
menopause.
■ That’s the basis for much of the
study of climacteric — middle-age —
medicine. Prevention is the key. Di
eting and exercise must be under
taken at 35 instead of 65, when it’s
probably too late to help.
■ But climacteric medicine is rela
tively new compared with pediatrics
ichildren) and geriatrics (the el
derly). Notelovitz said too much em-
jHiasis has been placed on those
pjlds and not enough on climacter
ics
|! But climacterics is gaining, and
Notelovitz predicts it will be raised to
the same level with pediatrics and
geriatrics in the next decade. With
more emphasis on middle age medi
cine, Notelovitz said people will be
healthier as they grow older and less
[^pressure will be placed on doctors
j treating the elderly.
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impact of ERISA
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■NEW YORK — Federal pension
reform legislation, which caused
howls of protest when it was imple
mented a decade ago, has not turned
out to be the economic burden many
businesses predicted.
bIA study of large corporate pen
sion plans this year found a down
ward trend in pension costs, accord
ing to Mary Fanning, manager of
the national research center of John
son & Higgins, which has conducted
surveys of the country’s 700 largest
companies for the last seven years.
||Tne study found that 1983 pen
sion expenses were almost 5 percent
lower than in 1982.
||“We find this study, published on
the tenth anniversary of the Em-
j)loyee Retirement Security Act par
ticularly significant,” said Carl
Swope, head of research and devel
opment for Johnson 8c Higgins.
ERISA required minimum stan-
rds of funding for private pension
plans in an effort to insure that com
panies which claimed to provide
pension protection for their employ
ees actually did so.
At the time it was passed into law,
business lobbyists claimed the cost of
ERISA Would send some companies
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from providing pension benefits at
all.
The Johnson 8c Higgins study,
however, found pension expense
per employee in 1983, when ad
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same as when ERISA was passed.
The performance of the stock and
bond market, where most pension
assets are invested, helped keep costs
down, Johnson 8c Higgins said. De
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since a rising cost of living pushes
pension expenses higher through
salary increases and benefit formula
improvements.
The study also cited increased use
of specialized pension asset manage
ment, including dedicated or immu
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of investment in real estate.
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that pension plans are coming out of
the closet as a matter of corporate fi
nancial planning,” said fanning.
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of pension plans as a purely benevo
lent act on the part of the employer.
Something of that aura has hung
over them for years.”
Now Johnson 8c Higgins has been
finding companies are using the
same strategic planning for pensions
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said she doubted they differ greatly
from those uncovered in the survey.
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companies in the study had plans
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portion of their plan obligations as
unfunded, the unfunded amount
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slightly more than 10 percent of ag
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The Labor Department estimates
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more than $1 trillion of the nation’s
$14.2 trillion in total asset holdings.
More than 25 percent of that was
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