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9/19/2013 - Suddenly, the Tech World Loves People Over 50

In today’s gold rush for the silver market, startups, advisers and older consumers have joined forces to help Americans age better. Read the full article at Next Avenue.

9/19/2013 - Scientists reveal how beta-amyloid may cause Alzheimer's

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown how a protein fragment known as beta-amyloid, strongly implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, begins destroying synapses before it clumps into plaques that lead to nerve cell death. Read the full article at Stanford Report.

9/18/2013 - TIME Talks to Google CEO Larry Page About Its New Venture to Extend Human Life

Bold project, to be led by biotech pioneer Arthur Levinson, will tackle’s some of health care’s biggest problems Read the full article at Time.

9/18/2013 - $33 Million Grant for Effort to Prevent Late-Onset Alzheimer’s

In a significant effort to discover a treatment to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, the federal government announced on Wednesday a $33.2 million grant for a project that will test a drug on people considered at greatest risk for developing the most common form of the disease. Read the full article at The New York Times.

9/18/2013 - Ageing could weaken central banks, spur rate volatility

Not unlike the ageing public – central banks will have to work harder as their economies grey and greater interest rate volatility over time may well be the outcome. Read the full article at Reuters.  

9/18/2013 - One in 8 workers will never retire

A new global study finds nearly one in eight workers expect they will never be able to afford to retire fully. In the U.S. and U.K, the figures are even worse. Read the full article at CNN.

9/18/2013 - Daughters (Still) Are the Caregivers

When it comes to taking care of aging mothers, biology is destiny. Or, to be more precise, biology plus geography equals destiny. Or, to quote The Shirelles circa 1961, if you’re the daughter who lives closest when your mother needs help: “Baby, it’s you.” Read the full article at The New York Times.

9/17/2013 - Relocate Your Parents, or Get Them a Robot?

No matter the economic downsides of the world’s coming demographic transition, one industry will boom: eldercare. Now that mom is less likely to die at the age of 60 from pneumonia or a sudden stroke, she’s more likely to require years of intensive care as time slowly saps her ability to take care of herself. She’s… Read more 9/17/2013 - Relocate Your Parents, or Get Them a Robot?

9/17/2013 - How Obamacare could help retirement planning

Obamacare is coming soon to millions of Americans, with open enrollment in the program’s state-run exchanges starting in October and many of the significant features going live January 1. And while it remains controversial, there are some practical, financial and retirement planning reasons to welcome the new health care law. Read the full article at… Read more 9/17/2013 - How Obamacare could help retirement planning

9/16/2013 - Why delirium in people with dementia can be deadly

More than half of all hospital patients with pre-existing dementia will also experience delirium, a condition that can lead to a faster decline of both physical and mental health. Read the full article at Futurity.