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9/15/2014 - Teen Invents Sensor to Help Alzheimer's Patients

by on September 15, 2014 8:31 pm
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, of the estimated five million Americans with the disease, about 60 percent of them wander — and often become dangerously lost — as a result. A fifteen-year-old has invented a pressure sensor that when worn on the bottom of the foot or with a sock detects an increase in pressure and… Read more 9/15/2014 - Teen Invents Sensor to Help Alzheimer's Patients
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9/13/2014 - Paying off today’s debts boosts your retirement tomorrow (Washington Post)

by on September 15, 2014 8:12 pm
I read a new report from the Government Accountability Office about the increase in the number of older Americans who drag student-loan debt into their senior years. Although the percentage of seniors with student loans is low, I’m still troubled by the growth of debt among this group. Read the full article at the Washington… Read more 9/13/2014 - Paying off today’s debts boosts your retirement tomorrow (Washington Post)
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9/12/2014 - Top retirement financial concern: Health care bills (USA Today)

by on September 15, 2014 5:37 pm
People over 50 say their top retirement financial worry is health care costs, a survey, out Friday, shows. Read the full article at USA Today.

9/15/2014 - Hedge funder offers $1 million to cure...aging?

by on September 15, 2014 4:37 pm
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9/12/2014 - Tougher Than They Look

by on September 12, 2014 11:49 pm
Scientists have been writing and thinking about resilience for several decades. Now, in Dr. Manning’s study of 10,753 people (average age: almost 69) drawn from three waves of the national Health and Retirement Study, “we’re starting to measure it,” Dr. Manning said — “as squishy and fuzzy a concept as it is.” Read the full… Read more 9/12/2014 - Tougher Than They Look
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9/12/2104 - Elderly New Yorkers, Here for the Duration

by on September 12, 2014 11:02 pm
It used to be that New Yorkers of a certain age reflexively said goodbye to all this — the traffic, the tumult, the long lines and the incomparable bagels — and headed south or west for their sunset years. No longer. Around town these days there are many more than 50 shades of gray. According… Read more 9/12/2104 - Elderly New Yorkers, Here for the Duration
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9/11/2014 - More seniors are carrying student loan debt into retirement

by on September 11, 2014 11:48 pm
Student loan debt doesn’t only hurt the young. More seniors are carrying their college debt into retirement. The total outstanding debt load held by seniors grew to $18.2 billion in 2013, up from $2.8 billion in 2005, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday. The share of households headed by… Read more 9/11/2014 - More seniors are carrying student loan debt into retirement
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9/11/2014 - Scientists Find Fruit Fly Gene That May Delay Aging

by on September 11, 2014 8:29 pm
A team of biologists from UCLA announced they’ve discovered a gene that could be used to slow aging and lead to longer life. In lab studies conducted in fruit flies, the scientists identified a cellular mechanism for boosting the body’s ability to flush out the cellular debris linked to many age-related diseases. Read the full… Read more 9/11/2014 - Scientists Find Fruit Fly Gene That May Delay Aging
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9/10/2014 - A Simple Equation: More Education = More Income

by on September 11, 2014 8:25 pm
Imagine if the United States government taxed the nation’s one-percenters so that their post-tax share of the nation’s income remained at 10 percent, roughly where it was in 1979. If the excess money were distributed equally among the rest of the population, in 2012 every family below that very top tier would have gotten a… Read more 9/10/2014 - A Simple Equation: More Education = More Income
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9/10/2014 - In retirement savings, the poor get poorer (MarketWatch)

by on September 11, 2014 5:52 pm
When it comes to Americans’ retirement account balances, happy days are here again—but only for some. Average retirement-account balances have actually shrunk for people at the higher and lower ends of the income scale, while the percentage of Americans who have retirement accounts continued a recent decline. Read the full article at MarketWatch.