7/8/2014 - NPR Survey Reveals Despised And Acceptable Terms For Aging

There’s a scarcity of terms for describing older adults and the aging process. At least there aren’t that many that most older people don’t find offensive. Read the full article at National Public Radio (NPR).

7/8/2014 - Using M.C.s and M.D.s to Promote Healthy Eating for Youths

A new campaign, which draws upon anti-obesity research conducted at Columbia University Medical Center, seeks to make healthy eating seem cool through original hip-hop songs, comic books and cartoon-style videos. Read the full article at The New York Times.

7/8/2014 - Will This Tech Tool Help Manage Older People's Health? Ask Dad

Aging 2.0 may not sound like the hippest start-up in San Francisco, but it’s part of an industry worth $2 billion and growing fast — technology to help older adults. Read the full article at National Public Radio (NPR).

7/7/2014 - Many workers put off retirement, take 'encore' jobs

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, encore careers have caught on among baby boomers, some of whom recoil at the notion of conventional retirement — or aren’t financially prepared. Read the full article at the Los Angeles Times.

Fei-Fei Li

Associate Professor, Computer Science; Director, Vision Lab Research interests: Vision, particularly high-level visual recognition; the interaction of attention and natural scene and object recognition, and decoding the human brain fMRI activities; computer vision image and video classification, retrieval, and understanding Email: feifeili@stanford.edu Phone:(650) 725-4403 Address: 353 Serra Mall Room 2A-246 Stanford, California 94305 Website: https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li

7/7/2014 - Time to downsize? Not for baby boomers

In an edited interview, the director of strategic planning for Fannie Mae’s economics group said that though such a wholesale change probably is inevitable, boomers these days show little inclination to leave the single-family home lifestyle that, to an extent, has defined their generation. Read the full article at the Chicago Tribune.  

7/6/2014 - Essential Financial Steps for Young Workers (Wall Street Journal)

For 20-somethings who have recently landed a first job, the logistics of financial independence can seem daunting. Here are some things young workers should be sure to take care of within the first five years of starting out. Read the full article at The Wall Street Journal.

7/3/2014 - New Rules To Help Avoid Outliving Your Money (Forbes)

New 401(k) rules issued yesterday by the Treasury Department may help you avoid outliving your money. And they may be an answer to one of the irrational retirement choices many of us make that I wrote about last summer. It’s the one known by economists as “the annuity puzzle.” Read the full article at Forbes.

7/7/2014 - When your aging parents need a daily money manager

Demand for daily money management services as America ages is likely to grow significantly, but at least for now the profession is virtually unknown. The American Association of Daily Money Managers (AADMM) , the profession’s primary trade group, has only about 700 members nationwide. Read the full article at Reuters.

7/4/2014 - Some States Look to Fill a Retirement Savings Gap

With more and more retirees at risk, 17 states are examining simple, low-cost plans that would allow workers to direct pretax money from their paychecks to a retirement account. Read the full article at The New York Times.