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9/17/2013 - Recommendation No. 1 for a Secure Retirement: "Age in Place"

“Aging in place” has been the focus of an occasional series from PBS NewsHour’s health unit. Ray Suarez reported on the village it takes to help seniors stay in their homes and lead active lives in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. And Hari Sreenivasan explored the efforts Age-Friendly New York has undertaken to support… Read more 9/17/2013 - Recommendation No. 1 for a Secure Retirement: "Age in Place"

9/16/2013 - Get an early start on retirement

Whether you’ve just thrown your graduation cap in the air or you’ve been building a career for a few years now, you’ve probably got more pressing financial concerns than saving for retirement. Like how you’ll make the rent and also eat. Or whether you’ll ever get out from under the crush of your student loans.… Read more 9/16/2013 - Get an early start on retirement

9/14/2013 - Alzheimer's research at crossroads

Experiments targeting brain plaques known as beta amyloids have come up empty, but some researchers argue that treatment must be started earlier. Read the full article at USA Today.

9/13/2013 - Financing Start-Up Dreams With Retirement Savings

Bohnne Jones had always dreamed of being an architect or interior designer. Suzie Ford wanted to know if the home-brewed beer her husband, Todd, made was as good as people said it was, while Jan Morris figured owning a distillery would be more fun than being a divorce lawyer. They had three very different dreams,… Read more 9/13/2013 - Financing Start-Up Dreams With Retirement Savings

9/12/2013 - Poetry Project Helps Dementia Patients Live in the Moment

In this new series, “Where Poetry Lives,” Natasha Trethewey, poet laureate of the United States, and Jeffrey Brown spends time at the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project in Brooklyn. The international program works with people with dementia to try to trigger memory by playfully engaging with language. Read the full article at PBS NewsHour.

9/12/2013 - Lessons from a good death

It seems to me that dying ranks up there as one of your most important life events, right alongside being born, getting married or meeting your life partner, and having children. Most likely you put a lot of time and effort into making these other life events positive experiences (with the possible exception of being… Read more 9/12/2013 - Lessons from a good death

9/11/2013 - Will Americans continue to work longer?

A recent study by Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution has caused me to worry.   Burtless explored the extent to which the increased educational attainment of older workers – both absolutely and relative to the attainment of prime-age workers – could explain their greater labor force participation. Read the full article at MarketWatch.

9/11/2013 - Stanford researchers: Feds likely miscalculated health care cost

9/10/2013 - Boomers,GenX and Millennials Squeezed by Zero Interest Rates

Whether you’re a Baby Boomer or a Generation Xer or one of the youthful Millennial lot, preparing for retirement carries with it the unique obstacle of earning enough income  in a period of record low interest rates and several volatile and traumatic  moves up and down in stock prices. Read the full article at MarketWatch.

9/10/2013 - NIH Seeking Baby Boomers Helps Buck Trend of Unemployment

NIH is among a cadre of employers going against prevailing trends by seeking out baby boomers. NIH and Scripps Health lead the list of best employers for workers over 50 compiled by the AARP, a Washington-based non-profit advocacy organization for people in this age group, and the Society for Human Resource Management of Alexandria, Virginia. Read the… Read more 9/10/2013 - NIH Seeking Baby Boomers Helps Buck Trend of Unemployment