What do retirement planners and fortune tellers have in common? One takes advantage of naïve or desperate clients and the other pretends not to. Truth is, the most sophisticated retirement calculations, algorithms, simulations, scenario plans, even crystal balls cannot determine…
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Have fun, if The Ackerly, an older adult community opening this summer in Portland, Oregon, lives up to its promotional message. “Suddenly, it dawned on Joe that retirement is totally awesome.” says the ad in Portland Monthly. Above the caption…
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Time is discriminatory, ageist even. It takes forever when you’re a kid; and flies with increasing velocity as you age. Scientists and psychologists who’ve studied this phenomenon propose various theories for the disparity. Most agree, though, that it is not…
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Let it be known, I don’t feel sorry for older adults. I do, however, respect older adults. I admire older adults. And I learn from older adults. But as for being sympathetic to people just because they are old? Nope.…
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“Sometimes I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties” Michael Kingsley writes, in his new book Old…
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles DeCarli, MD, UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center No medical diagnosis is as feared as Alzheimer’s disease. Literally. Not even cancer. Work at the University of California at Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center offers us hope though. As the…
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It was a “Thrill of a Lifetime” for former P.O.W. Mino Ohye to reunite with his brother in Japan from whom he was separated by WWII for nearly six decades. The 2012 reunion of the brothers happened on Ohye’s 86th…
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Here’s my armchair quarterback assessment of the day before yesterday’s “Senior Rally Day” at the State Capitol in California. For the record, these notes could apply to all senior rally days of past. More than 500 people attended the gathering.…
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Guest Essay by Paul Downey, Chair of the California Commission on Aging, and President and CEO of Serving Seniors (San Diego, CA) With the growing number of seniors in California, the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services recently…
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Don’t assume temporary water conservation has solved the drought problem. Sure, we can toast our efforts so far, just remember, sip-don’t-gulp. Because, the problem is not that it doesn’t rain enough. The problem is we’re using too much water for…
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