7/13/2012 - Friends of a Certain Age

In studies of peer groups, Laura L. Carstensen, a psychology professor who is the director of the Stanford Center on Longevity in California, observed that people tended to interact with fewer people as they moved toward midlife, but that they grew closer to the friends they already had. Read the full article at The New… Read more 7/13/2012 - Friends of a Certain Age

7/12/2012 - With rates low, it pays to delay Social Security

There aren’t many things good about a zero-interest-rate-policy world for retirees or those planning their retirement. But researchers say there is one bright spot. Most households benefit from waiting to claim Social Security when real interest rates are close to zero, as they are now, according to research just published by National Bureau of Economic… Read more 7/12/2012 - With rates low, it pays to delay Social Security

7/12/2012 - When Threats are Better than Anger New research at Stanford Business School Finds Negotiators Gain More Concessions with Cool Threats than with Heated Words

A large body of previous work had shown that threatening to walk away from a negotiation is a powerful way to get the other party to give in to one’s demands. The problem, though, is that people usually make threats when they are angry. A new study by faculty members at Stanford Graduate School of… Read more 7/12/2012 - When Threats are Better than Anger New research at Stanford Business School Finds Negotiators Gain More Concessions with Cool Threats than with Heated Words

7/11/2012 - In Preventing Alzheimer’s, Mutation May Aid Drug Quest

A study of a rare gene mutation that protects people against Alzheimer’s disease provides the strongest evidence yet that excessive levels of a normal brain substance, beta amyloid, are a driving force in the disease — bolstering hopes that anti-amyloid drugs already under development might alter the disease’s course or even prevent it. Read the… Read more 7/11/2012 - In Preventing Alzheimer’s, Mutation May Aid Drug Quest

7/10/2012 - Consumer group: Elderly, vulnerable losing homes over just few hundred dollars in back taxes

The elderly and other vulnerable homeowners are losing their homes because they owe as little as a few hundred dollars in back taxes, according to a report from a consumer group. Read the full article at CBS News.

7/10/2012 - Q&A: Stanford economist John Shoven on Social Security

It’s true: 65 really is the new 55. Stanford economist John Shoven gives practical advice on how to save for retirement during a struggling economy, low interest rates and longer life spans. Read the full interview at Stanford University News.

7/9/2012 - 5 Questions: Christopher Gardner on non-nutritive sweeteners

On July 9, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association issued a scientific statement that, while encouraging Americans to reduce the added sugar in their diets, notes that the data are inconclusive about the effectiveness of using non-nutritive sweeteners to lose excess weight. Nutrition expert Christopher Gardner, PhD, associate professor of medicine at… Read more 7/9/2012 - 5 Questions: Christopher Gardner on non-nutritive sweeteners

7/6/2012 - Older Californians Seek Ways to Age in Their Communities

“We’ll have doubling of our older population over the next 20 years. Which makes us aging faster than the United States, which I think is a bit of a surprise to people.” – Adele Hayutin, Director, Global Aging Program, Stanford  Center on Longevity. Hear the full discussion at KQED News.

7/4/2012 - The young don't buy into propaganda of war between generations

For years now, efforts to set young against old have been linchpins in campaigns to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits and turn those programs over to the private sector. The basic tactic is to portray those programs as giveaways to undeserving seniors that rip off the young; the goal is to turn the ostensibly… Read more 7/4/2012 - The young don't buy into propaganda of war between generations

6/29/2012 - Henry Cisneros on Policies to Help California Seniors Age in Place

California may be the sixth youngest state right now. But it has an outsized population of Baby Boomers. “They are turning 65 soon,” says Adele Hayutin, a Senior Research Scholar, at the Stanford Center on Longevity. “We’ll have a doubling of our older population over the next 20 years,” Hayutin says. “That makes us aging faster… Read more 6/29/2012 - Henry Cisneros on Policies to Help California Seniors Age in Place