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8/8/2012 - Is standing healthier than sitting?

Read article at Scope Blog, Stanford School of Medicine

8/7/2012 - Older Americans upbeat about aging, future: survey

Read article at Reuters

8/6/2012 - Boomer retirement housing preferences shifting

The classic image of new retirees making a bee-line to Florida or the Sun Belt to live out their lives in sun-drenched comfort is increasingly a thing of the past. Among U.S. workers age 55 and older, almost two-thirds — 62 percent — think that when they retire they will continue to live in their… Read more 8/6/2012 - Boomer retirement housing preferences shifting

8/6/2012 - The Biggest Retirement Challenges for Women

Women generally live longer than men, which means additional years of retirement need to be financed. But women continue to have lower earnings and less retirement savings than men, which causes women to have lower retirement incomes and to be much more likely to spend their retirement years in poverty, especially if they become widows.… Read more 8/6/2012 - The Biggest Retirement Challenges for Women

7/31/2012 - Adult education via iPad targets Boomers

Coming to television screens early next month: Hollywood stars pitching a new, iPad-centric education venture aimed at Baby Boomers looking for work. Read the full article at the San Francisco Chronicle  

7/30/2012 - Richest Retirees Settle For Seattle Rain As Florida No. 2

“We have a group of people who have prepared extremely well,” Laura Carstensen, a professor of psychology at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Center on Longevity near Palo Alto, California, said of retirees. “They have a few million dollars in their retirement accounts. They’re going to have a lot of flexibility.” Read the… Read more 7/30/2012 - Richest Retirees Settle For Seattle Rain As Florida No. 2

7/29/2012 - The Entitled Generation

In this New York Times Op-Ed, Bill Keller explores the way baby boomers are viewed by younger generations. Read the full article at The New York Times.

7/27/2012 - The Father Is Child of the Man

The Stanford Longevity Center has shown that, as people age, their social circles shrink, often to as few as five people. While this allows older people to focus more on those they really care about, it also increases the burden on their children. Read the full article at The New York Times.

7/27/2012 - Comparing Medicare and Employer Health Insurance

People with traditional Medicare coverage are less likely to skip needed care or encounter problems in getting care due to cost, and are more satisfied with their coverage, than are younger people with employer-sponsored health insurance, a study published online in the journal Health Affairs finds. Read the full article at The New York Times.

7/25/2012 - More Older People Treated for Depression

For years, mental health specialists lamented that depression was seriously underdiagnosed and undertreated in the elderly. Laypeople saw it not as a disease but as an inevitable part of aging. Doctors missed it because depression didn’t always look the way it did in younger patients — less sadness and weepiness, more physical symptoms and disengagement. Older people… Read more 7/25/2012 - More Older People Treated for Depression