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9/8/2014 - How working in retirement impacts Social Security (MarketWatch)

by on September 11, 2014 5:51 pm
Increasingly retirees are shunning traditional retirement and instead are exploring a return to work. So how does this trend affect one’s Social Security benefits? Read the full article at MarketWatch.
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9/6/2014 - Despite Curve Balls, Most Retirees Manage (WSJ)

by on September 11, 2014 5:49 pm
Indeed, many people head into retirement with little money and little planning. And life has a way of throwing financial or health-related curve balls even when we have planned ahead or think everything is under control. But the reality is that most people simply find a way to adjust. Read the full article at the… Read more 9/6/2014 - Despite Curve Balls, Most Retirees Manage (WSJ)
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9/10/2014 - Stanford scientists map white matter connections within the human brain

by on September 10, 2014 4:51 pm
Roughly 100 trillion connections between neurons make it possible for the brain to function. Psychology Professor Brian Wandell’s group has devised a technique for mapping these connections with greater accuracy than ever before. Brain Wandell is a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Center on Longevity. Read the full article at Stanford Report.
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9/9/2014 - Dementia patients continue to get medications with little, no benefit

by on September 9, 2014 8:55 pm
More than half of nursing home patients who suffer severe dementia and are likely to die within a year or two are administered medications that offer little to no benefit and may cause pointless discomfort, a new study finds. Read the full article at Los Angeles Times.
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9/7/2014 - Seniors boost number of veterans deemed unemployable

by on September 8, 2014 8:09 pm
Senior citizens have helped make the benefit known as individual unemployability one of the fastest-growing expenditures in the VA disability system. The number of “unemployable” veterans has nearly tripled since 2000, to 321,451, with the majority at ages when most people have already stopped working. Government data show that 56% of the beneficiaries are at… Read more 9/7/2014 - Seniors boost number of veterans deemed unemployable
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9/5/2014 - Nearly a quarter of Fortune 500 companies still offer pensions to new hires (Washington Post)

by on September 8, 2014 5:14 pm
About one in four large employers still offer some sort of pension to new hires, according to a study released Thursday. Read the full article at the Washington Post.
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9/5/2014 - Financial Schemes Against the Elderly Are Increasing (NY Times)

by on September 8, 2014 5:13 pm
Financial crimes against elders are taking a toll on lives and pocketbooks. And trusted caregivers — the friends and relatives who offer support and guidance — are often the ones at fault, according to legal and financial specialists. Read the full article at the New York Times.

9/4/2014 - Plan a Satisfying Retirement (Bloomberg)

by on September 8, 2014 5:12 pm
You’ve worked hard all your life, and now you’re on the brink of retirement. Trouble is, the things you looked forward to all those years — mornings on the golf course, afternoons puttering in the garden, trips to exotic places — don’t feel like they’ll be enough to sustain you. Encore careers — jobs that… Read more 9/4/2014 - Plan a Satisfying Retirement (Bloomberg)
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9/5/2014 - Encouraging End-of-Life Talks

by on September 5, 2014 10:32 pm
There is reason to hope that a degree of sanity may be returning to the touchy issue of advance planning for medical care at the end of life. Just five years ago, Republican politicians, Sarah Palin prominent among them, were falsely charging that President Obama’s health care reforms would create “death panels” that could cut… Read more 9/5/2014 - Encouraging End-of-Life Talks

9/3/2014 - Save Retirement: Researchers Say Blow Up the 401(k) and Start Over (Main St)

by on September 5, 2014 5:13 pm
The retirement savings system in America is broken. It’s too complicated, too costly and unmanageable by employees and employers alike. That’s the thesis proposed by Russell Olson and Douglas Phillips, investment officers at the University of Rochester endowment. Read the full article at Main St.