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10/12/2015 - Age-associated financial vulnerability often overlooked

A new report says doctors and consumers both tend to overlook one of the most common and devastating problems of aging – the decline in patients’ ability to manage their own financial affairs. Read the full article at Reuters.

10/8/2015 - Women Are a Quarter Million Dollars Short of Retirement

Lower earnings and longer lives—it’s a powerful one-two punch, and it threatens to keep women on the ropes in retirement. A recent study measured the retirement savings divide between 45-year-old men and women. It found that women, on average, are more than $268,000 short of what they need to retire comfortably at 65. For the average man, it’s $212,000.… Read more 10/8/2015 - Women Are a Quarter Million Dollars Short of Retirement

10/8/2015 - Second cohort of Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Fellows named

A real estate developer, a healthcare consultant and a senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development are among the 25 fellows chosen by Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI), to take part in its 2016 program of intellectual exploration and personal reflection. The program, now in its second year, is designed for exceptional leaders with decades… Read more 10/8/2015 - Second cohort of Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Fellows named

10/6/2015 - Europe's Aging Society Seen as Roadblock for Economic Revival

Europe’s stability is proving to be the root of its economic weakness, economists said at conference in London. The region’s aging population, while providing a bulwark against dramatic upheaval, is struggling to adapt to a changing world, panelists said at the Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit on Tuesday. From its fading competitiveness in global markets to the… Read more 10/6/2015 - Europe's Aging Society Seen as Roadblock for Economic Revival

10/5/2015 - The Hurdles to Getting Hearing Aids

Hearing loss is usually gradual, and people often fail to recognize when it becomes severe enough to warrant hearing aids. Some deny that they have a problem, and instead accuse others of mumbling when they know people are talking but can’t understand what is being said. Still others regard hearing aids as unattractive devices that… Read more 10/5/2015 - The Hurdles to Getting Hearing Aids

10/1/2015 - The Real Reason People Don't Save Enough for Retirement

Trying to educate the undisciplined shifts the blame from where it should be: on America’s lousy savings plans. Read the full article at The Atlantic.

9/30/2015 - Tension helps heart cells develop normally in the lab, according to Stanford engineers

Stanford researcher and Center on Longevity faculty affiliate Beth Pruitt, and Alexandre Ribeiro have discovered that a heart cell matured from stem cells in the lab looks and behaves like a normal adult heart cell when grown in a long, thin shape and on a surface that provides some tension. Read the full article at… Read more 9/30/2015 - Tension helps heart cells develop normally in the lab, according to Stanford engineers

9/30/2015 - Are There Different Types Of Alzheimer's Disease?

A new study, published in the August issue of the journal Aging, hypothesizes that Alzheimer’s is not a single disease but that it exists in three distinct subtypes – inflammatory, noninflammatory and cortical. The paper’s author, Dr. Dale Bredesen, professor of neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles, came to the conclusion by conducting… Read more 9/30/2015 - Are There Different Types Of Alzheimer's Disease?

9/29/2015 - The Biggest Reason Workers Don’t Save for Retirement

Why are only about half of American workers saving for retirement through their workplace? According to the Government Accountability Office, it’s largely because their employers do not offer savings plans like a 401(k). Of all the workers who aren’t currently saving through their employer, 68% work for an employer that doesn’t offer a plan and… Read more 9/29/2015 - The Biggest Reason Workers Don’t Save for Retirement

9/28/2015 - Leisure Inequality: What the Rich-Poor Longevity Gap Will Do to Retirement

In American society, those who live the longest get to enjoy years of relaxation, but those with the shortest life expectancies tend to work into their final years. Read the full article at The Atlantic.