Category: Longevity News 2013

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4/8/2013 - When 'Aging at Home' Isn't the Answer

by on April 9, 2013 6:03 pm
“This is going to sound really odd coming from someone with a book about aging at home, but sometimes, aging at home is not the answer.” Read the full article at Huffington Post.
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4/8/2013 - Fitness after 65 is no one-size-fits-all endeavor

by on April 8, 2013 5:23 pm
America’s ageing population is posing special challenges, fitness experts say, because it is difficult to design effective workout routines for people with such a wide range of abilities. Read the full article at Reuters.
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4/8/2013 - The People’s Choice for the People’s Pension

by on April 8, 2013 5:17 pm
Social Security, the most transparently self-financed program of the federal government, is not increasing our budget deficit. The most recent trustees’ report shows sufficient funds to pay full benefits until 2033. Read the full article at The New York Times.
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4/6/2013 - Shifting Our Retirement Savings Into Automatic

by on April 6, 2013 5:04 pm
Many problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn’t know how to do it. Fixing inner-city schools, reducing obesity, creating peace in the Middle East are just a few examples. But some problems are frustrating in another way: we know how to fix them and we can… Read more 4/6/2013 - Shifting Our Retirement Savings Into Automatic
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4/5/2013 - Brain Games are Bogus

by on April 5, 2013 10:58 pm
A decade ago, a young Swedish researcher named Torkel Klingberg made a spectacular discovery. He gave a group of children computer games designed to boost their memory, and, after weeks of play, the kids showed improvements not only in memory but in overall intellectual ability. Spending hours memorizing strings of digits and patterns of circles… Read more 4/5/2013 - Brain Games are Bogus
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4/4/2013 - Assessing Your Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

by on April 5, 2013 8:17 pm
Although there are no definitive tests that predict whether most people will get the disease, people sometimes want such information for legal and financial planning purposes or to help weigh the need for long-term-care insurance. The cost of the disease can be staggering, as a new national study suggests. The researchers found that Americans spent “$41,000 to $56,000… Read more 4/4/2013 - Assessing Your Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
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4/3/2013 - Misperceptions of Benefits

by on April 5, 2013 4:10 am
President Obama had Senate Republicans nodding in agreement during a recent ice-breaking dinner as he described a basic problem for the nation’s fiscal future: For each dollar that Americans pay for Medicare, they ultimately draw about $3 in benefits. What’s more, he added, most people do not understand that. Read the full article at The… Read more 4/3/2013 - Misperceptions of Benefits
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4/3/2013 - Dementia Care Cost Is Projected to Double by 2040

by on April 3, 2013 6:51 pm
The most rigorous study to date of how much it costs to care for Americans with dementia found that the financial burden is at least as high as that of heart disease or cancer, and is probably higher. And both the costs and the number of people with dementia will more than double within 30… Read more 4/3/2013 - Dementia Care Cost Is Projected to Double by 2040

4/2/2013 - The Longevity Economy: From The Elderly, A New Source Of Economic Growth

by on April 2, 2013 5:34 pm
Apple Computer once famously advised us to “think different.” It’s time to think different about America’s ongoing demographic shift — and to think seriously about the opportunities it holds. Read the full article at Forbes.
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4/2/2013 - Are you a born retirement saver?

by on April 2, 2013 5:32 pm
Are some people born to save and others not? Is it nature or is it nurture? Well, a new study on this age-old debate suggests that—at least when it comes to saving for retirement—it’s more nature than nurture. You are either hard wired to save or not. Read the full article at MarketWatch.