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12/17/2013 - A Way to Stay on the Job (NY Times)
by mbeals on December 18, 2013 6:10 pm
Does your employer offer back-up elder care? Hundreds do, among them corporations (Home Depot, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard), universities (Columbia, Northwestern), hospitals (Houston Methodist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering), law firms, nonprofit organizations and several government agencies. They collectively cover millions of employees. It is not the solution we all want to the long-term care crisis and the over-reliance on… Read more 12/17/2013 - A Way to Stay on the Job (NY Times)
12/18/2013 - Tricking the brain with transformative virtual reality
by admin on December 18, 2013 6:09 pm
Want to have a just-like-real-life fantasy experience without leaving your living room? Virtual reality technology is already employed by certain industries, but economics correspondent Paul Solman considers the variety of applications it could have in the consumer market in the future. In this interview, Solman visits Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab founded by Center on… Read more 12/18/2013 - Tricking the brain with transformative virtual reality
12/17/2013 - Should the U.S. force citizens to save? (Reuters)
by mbeals on December 18, 2013 6:09 pm
Americans aren’t saving enough to retire. This gap poses a problem for everyone, not just people who will face near-poverty when they can’t work anymore. Does that merit forcing people to save more? Read the full article at Reuters.
12/17/2013 - Don't blame pensions for cities' woes: New study (CNBC)
by mbeals on December 18, 2013 6:08 pm
Detroit’s recent high-profile trip to bankruptcy court—allowing it to break decades of costly pension promises—has prompted other city officials to blame “legacy” retiree benefit costs for their dire financial conditions. But pension costs have played only a minor role in the current financial plight of the dozens of U.S. cities that find themselves unable to… Read more 12/17/2013 - Don't blame pensions for cities' woes: New study (CNBC)
12/18/2013 - To Address The Dementia Epidemic, We Need Smarter Research Funding
by admin on December 18, 2013 4:58 pm
Government ministers, public health advocates, scientists and drug industry executives from the Group of Eight leading economies held a special summit meeting in London last week to devise a strategy to address what amounts to a global epidemic of dementia. Read the full article at Forbes.
12/17/2013 - How the Great Recession Really Affected Early Retirement
by admin on December 17, 2013 8:42 pm
One of the worrying trends in the labor market in recent years has been a decline in the percentage of Americans working or actively looking for work. There have always been a large portion of the working-age population considered to be not in the workforce. These may include stay-at-home parents, full-time college students, or retired… Read more 12/17/2013 - How the Great Recession Really Affected Early Retirement
12/16/2013 - More Montana seniors rely on food programs to fill cupboards (Billings Gazette)
by borges on December 16, 2013 7:02 pm
After O.D. Etter was in a head-on crash, he could no longer work, and money for groceries dwindled. “I had a good hunting rifle I was able to pawn off and get enough to kind of keep things going,” said Etter, who is almost 75. At the time, Etter was desperate, and the rifle brought… Read more 12/16/2013 - More Montana seniors rely on food programs to fill cupboards (Billings Gazette)
12/16/2013 - Why you may want to avoid a dementia test
by admin on December 16, 2013 6:56 pm
As you get older, every time you misplace your wallet or can’t remember why you walked into the kitchen, you may wonder: Is this a sign of dementia? Even if such bouts of forgetfulness aren’t serious, a screening test for dementia or its most common cause — Alzheimer’s disease — might seem appealing, if only… Read more 12/16/2013 - Why you may want to avoid a dementia test
12/16/2013 - Stanford study urges more accurate estimates of financial fraud
by admin on December 16, 2013 5:53 pm
A Stanford Center on Longevity study describes the roadblocks to obtaining accurate financial fraud estimates – victims are often reluctant to speak up – and suggests ways to improve the national tracking of such incidents. “Without accurate and reliable estimates of fraud,” wrote Martha Deevy, director of the Financial Security Division at the Stanford Center… Read more 12/16/2013 - Stanford study urges more accurate estimates of financial fraud
12/16/2013 - Damaged blood vessels may contribute to Alzheimer's
by admin on December 16, 2013 5:26 pm
Cells in the blood-brain barrier may control multiple steps in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease—and could serve as potential targets for new treatments, researchers say. Read the full article at Futurity.
