4/22/2013 - A Boom in Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment Among Late Bloomers

Are mature entrepreneurs on the rise? Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to older workers who decided to pursue their own business dreams later in life. Read/listen to the full story at PBS NewsHour.

4/22/2013 - How Therapy Can Help in the Golden Years

“We’ve been seeing more people in their 80s and older over the past five years, many who have never done therapy before,” said Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, a professor of research in the department of psychiatry at Stanford and a Stanford Center on Longevity faculty affiliate. “Usually, they’ve tried other resources like their church, or talked to… Read more 4/22/2013 - How Therapy Can Help in the Golden Years

4/21/2013 - Change diet, exercise habits at same time for best results, study says

Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine, including Center on Longevity faculty affiliate Abby King, have discovered that focusing on changing exercise and diet at the same time gives a bigger boost than tackling them sequentially. They also found that focusing on changing diet first — an approach that many weight-loss programs advocate — may… Read more 4/21/2013 - Change diet, exercise habits at same time for best results, study says

4/18/2013 - Walking While Old: Seniors Face Greatest Death Risk

Parents worry a lot about the safety of children crossing the street. It looks like they should be worried about Grandpa, too. Older people are at higher risk of being killed by a car while walking, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the full article at National… Read more 4/18/2013 - Walking While Old: Seniors Face Greatest Death Risk

4/18/2013 - Low-interest-rate environment exposes seniors to fraudsters

Senior citizens are being lured into riskier investments — and often outright scams — as carefully laid retirement plans have been scuttled by five years of low interest rates. Read the full article at The Washington Post.

4/17/2013 - Hospital Dangers for Patients With Parkinson’s

It was supposed to be a short stay. In 2006, Roger Anderson was to undergo surgery to relieve a painfully compressed spinal disk. His wife, Karen, figured the staff at the hospital, in Portland, Ore., would understand how to care for someone with Parkinson’s disease. Read the full article at The New York Times.

4/17/2013 - Is there really a retirement saving crisis?

According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, households are going to face real challenges in retirement. Our National Retirement Risk Index projects that 53% of today’s working households are not going to be able to maintain their standard of living once they stop working. Yet really smart economists who compare optimal savings… Read more 4/17/2013 - Is there really a retirement saving crisis?

4/17/2013 - Is there really a retirement savings crisis? (MarketWatch)

I personally believe, and more importantly all the work done at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College suggests, that households are going to face real challenges in retirement.  Our National Retirement Risk Index projects that 53% of today’s working households are not going to be able to maintain their standard of living once… Read more 4/17/2013 - Is there really a retirement savings crisis? (MarketWatch)

4/15/2013 - Worries Multiplied for Elderly

Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure and heart disease are the three most common chronic conditions in assisted living facilities: 82 percent of residents have at least one of them, according to a new government study. But what is alarming is how these ailments overlap. Read the full article at The New York Times.

4/14/2013 - As America Ages, Shortage of Help Hits Nursing Homes (Wall Street Journal)

WOODLAND, Calif.—A labor shortage is worsening in one of the nation’s fastest-growing occupations—taking care of the elderly and disabled—just as baby boomers head into old age. Nursing homes and operators of agencies providing home-care services already are straining to find enough so-called direct-care workers, who help the elderly or disabled with such things as eating… Read more 4/14/2013 - As America Ages, Shortage of Help Hits Nursing Homes (Wall Street Journal)