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10/29/2015 - Planning a Wedding When a Parent Is Ill
by admin on October 29, 2015 2:03 pm
When my mom was told she had Stage 4 lung cancer last November, I waded into uncharted territory. I was 28, living with my partner of five years, Dan, and our two dogs in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. As soon as my mom broke the news, from her home in Florida, I rushed down to… Read more 10/29/2015 - Planning a Wedding When a Parent Is Ill
10/28/2015 - The Most Influential People In Aging
by admin on October 28, 2015 7:34 pm
Next Avenue released the 2015 Influencers in Aging, its first annual list recognizing 50 inspiring thought leaders, innovators, doctors, authors, advocates, experts, executives and others changing how we age and think about aging. Read the full article at Forbes.
10/27/2015 - Talking Early About How Life Should End
by admin on October 27, 2015 6:21 pm
Of adults 75 and over, a Pew Research Center study found that only 17 percent had talked to their families about their end-of-life wishes. It is an uncomfortable conversation. It always seems too early to talk to a loved one about how she wants to die — until it’s too late, and she can no… Read more 10/27/2015 - Talking Early About How Life Should End
10/27/2015 - U.S. deaths drop for leading causes
by admin on October 27, 2015 6:19 pm
The U.S. death rate for all causes is continuing to decline, aided by drops in fatalities from leading causes like heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and accidents, new research finds. Read the full article at Reuters.
10/27/2015 - What’s Needed to Help Americans Age in Place
by admin on October 27, 2015 6:14 pm
Many of us want to grow older where we now live. Will our homes let us? Read the full article at Next Avenue.
10/27/2015 - Guys Retire to Hang With Their Wives. And the Wives?
by admin on October 27, 2015 6:11 pm
About 60 percent of men cite spending more time with their wives as one of the strongest motivations to retire, according to a new survey based on more than 12,000 defined-contribution plan participants 55 or older. Just 43 percent of women say the same. Read the full article at Bloomberg.
10/26/2015 - Baby Boomers Hugely Underestimate What They Need for Retirement (The Wall Street Journal)
by djaworski on October 26, 2015 9:37 pm
When it comes to saving for retirement, there’s a huge gap between what Americans say they want and what they’re doing to make it happen. A new survey from BlackRock on attitudes about money and financial goals found Americans are holding nearly twice as much cash as they think they ought to in order to reach their retirement goals.… Read more 10/26/2015 - Baby Boomers Hugely Underestimate What They Need for Retirement (The Wall Street Journal)
10/26/2015 - A ‘Gener-ager’s’ Perspective on Aging’s Broken Record
by admin on October 26, 2015 9:09 pm
Whether it is Marc Freedman’s seminal books reflecting the encore career movement, Laura Carstensen’s directorship of the Stanford Center on Longevity or Paul Irving’s book, The Upside of Aging (to name just a few examples), society needs to embrace the “successful aging” theme. Read the full article at Next Avenue.
10/26/2015 - Costs for Dementia Care Far Exceeding Other Diseases, Study Finds
by admin on October 26, 2015 6:16 pm
Three diseases, leading killers of Americans, often involve long periods of decline before death. Two of them — heart disease and cancer — usually require expensive drugs, surgeries and hospitalizations. The third, dementia, has no effective treatments to slow its course. So when a group of researchers asked which of these diseases involved the greatest… Read more 10/26/2015 - Costs for Dementia Care Far Exceeding Other Diseases, Study Finds
10/26/2015 - Baby Boomers Hugely Underestimate What They Need for Retirement
by admin on October 26, 2015 4:33 pm
A new survey from BlackRock on attitudes about money and financial goals found Americans are holding nearly twice as much cash as they think they ought to in order to reach their retirement goals. Fewer than a quarter of them regularly set aside money into long-term savings or investment plans—yet 74% said they feel financially… Read more 10/26/2015 - Baby Boomers Hugely Underestimate What They Need for Retirement
