Intergenerational
KGO News, November 18th, 2009
Can you afford NOT to have long term care? The long term care crisis and its impact on your family's future financial security.
Long term care crisis: The cost of long term
care can severely impact your family's future
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The New York Times, August 23rd, 2009For 10 days in June, Kristen Murphy chose to live somewhere she and many others fear: a nursing home. Ms. Murphy, who is in perfect health, had to learn the best way to
navigate a wheelchair around her small room,
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Birmingham Post, August 6th, 2009Anyone faced with funding long-term health care should look beyond equity release schemes or selling their homes.
That
is the message from a West Midland firm of independent financial
advisers keen to show that forward
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The New York Times, July 17th, 2009Stay put or sell?That’s the question many older people ponder as they move into their 70s and beyond. Most
older people settle on staying put, according to a recent survey by the
Home Safety Council, a nonprofit organization
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Bostonia, July 8th, 2009At a certain point in her forties, Paula Span
noticed that the conversation among her friends had changed: it was
less about growing toddlers, day care, and pediatricians, and more
about aging parents, assisted living, and geriatricians.
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Yahoo News, June 23rd, 2009The world's 65-and-older population will triple by mid-century to 1
in 6 people, leaving the U.S. and other nations struggling to support
the elderly.
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The New York Times, June 4th, 2008Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human
lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give
impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs.
The study is based on
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New York Times, May 25th, 2008First thing every morning, Lynn Pitet, of Cody, Wyo., checks her
computer to see whether her mother, Helen Trost, has gotten out of bed,
taken her medication and whether she is moving around inside her house
hundreds of
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New York Times, Mat 13th, 2008DR. PAUL D. THOMPSON, a 60-year-old marathon runner and chief of
cardiology at Hartford Hospital, stood in front of a medical audience
recently and began his talk with a story about himself.
“I’ve been lifting weights
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New York Times, May 20th, 2008When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party,
they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing
number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong.
Instead, the research
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BusinessWeek, May 13th, 2008In this roundup of B-school research: why women are better savers,
it's good to talk up your rivals, and how a logo can spark ideas.
Women are more motivated than men to save for retirement, according to a recent report from
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Los Angeles Times, May 11th, 2008Reverse mortgages are one way for house-rich but cash-poor seniors to
tap into their equity without having to sell. But there are other
options to consider as well. A reverse loan is intended to
enable people 62 or
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NYTimes, May 9th, 2008
MATT Micuda was 12 in 1973 when he surfed for the first time. It was on a board that had come from a friend of the family — a Barry Kanaiaupuni model from Rick Surfboards that was made in 1968.
“I loved it immediately,” he said.
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NYtimes, May 4th, 2008
The future of Americans’ pensions has not become a serious campaign issue so far this election season. It’s hard to get retirement issues to the front of the line when the nation faces soaring health care costs, global warming,
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FoxBusiness, May 7th, 2008
Lower compensation and less time in workforce harms women's retirement security
Women are at a much higher risk than men of facing economic uncertainty in retirement and, on average, they'll enter retirement with considerably
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