Topic: Aging and the Elderly

Change the Game: Add Aging to the Parent-Centric Work+Life Debate

The other day, as I read Sharon Meers' (author of Getting to 50/50) clear and compelling article in The Washington Post, "How Joe Biden Can Help Working Parents," I had two conflicting reactions: First was, "Go Sharon!" because she ...READ MORE›

Living for Social Networks, Literally

More and more elderly people are joining social networks, according to The New York Times, and it may be saving them from death by boredom. Among senior citizens who ventured online in 2008, the number that visited social ...READ MORE›

"Ageism"--Next Work+Life Fit Barrier to Break?

In the past few weeks, I’ve heard a lot about aging and ageism in the workplace.  But it took reading some comments on an article I found to doing research on the candidates in Politico.com entitled, “John McCain doesn’t work ...READ MORE›

Want To Stay Healthy After Retirement? Keep Working

Since the Great Depression, a commonly held perspective on the good life is that we can all look forward to retirement, when we didn't have to work any more. We would be more relaxed and healthier away from the stresses of work. There's a couple of flaws in that argument. For one thing, retirement, like pensions, was an invention of the depression, intended to deal with the problem of unemployment. Prior to the depression the concept of retirement didn't exist. And for the most part, people are viewing retirement in a very different way today. AARP in the U.S., report from a survey done in 2008 that 70% of workers plan to continue working past their retirement age.Now recent research questions the assumption that not working anymore will improve your health. READ MORE›

How to Age With Grace

The current anti aging discoveries show that if humans ate healthfully, were sheltered from environmental toxins, got adequate exercise and rest, and spent most of their lives away from the sun, their skin would look and feel plump, ...READ MORE›

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Aging in America – Eldercare, eCareDiary, and Community

Let’s face it, aging in America is not easy. We have built one of the greatest nations in the world, but we have left our growing elderly population to figure out MANY things on their own. As more of our aging population lives into advanced aging (their eighties and nineties), some very unique problems have arisen regarding eldercare. READ MORE›

Newton Seniors Offered 10% Discount at Brookline Dentist

Dentist serving Boston-Newton residents offers 10% senior citizen discount valid on all restorative, cosmetic and general dentistry services during the month of February.READ MORE›

(Not) the Same Old Story

Eden Alternative is a change-minded organization determined to save a critically ill patient: long-term care for the elderly. The nursing-home industry should be about living, argues founder Bill Thomas, not about dying. Here's his prescription -- and lessons for changing any industry.READ MORE›

Welcome to Unretirement

Forward-thinking companies are still looking at incentives to keep older talent in place, even in this topsy-turvy downturn world.READ MORE›

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Innovation Scouts

How creative businesses in technology and media are unearthing new ideas in unexpected places--from an American Idol-style contest at Adobe Systems to eBay's new "disruption" team. Meet the new cool hunters.READ MORE›

Work/Life: All Play and No Work...I Can Dream, Can't I?

Let the other bloggers concern themselves with the latest narrowing of the field in the presidential election; let a different set of online pundits make their Super Bowl predictions…I am moved to discuss a rather inspiring story I ...READ MORE›

Heartbreaking Reminder--There's No Eldercare

“Please be advised that as your parents get older there are no resources to help you to care for them.  If you have no money at all, the government will try to help but the process is cumbersome and the wait can be long.  If you ...READ MORE›

Never Pre-Judge

Never pre-judge. Don't think a person my be too old for a job. A person's work experience can be more valuable than a college degree. When you interview to fill a job position, do not make the mistake of not considering older ...READ MORE›

California Supreme Court to Hear Former Employee's Ageism Case Against Google

The California Supreme Court has been called into a dispute between Google and a 54-year-old engineer in an ageism row. Brian Reid was employed at the search engine giant in the summer of 2002 but, within two years was deemed "an old ...READ MORE›

Antioxidants help against Hearing Loss

A recent study done by the University of Floridahttp://www.ufl.edu, along with researchers from the University of Wisconsin, revealed that antioxidants could help protect against hearing loss. The test identified a protein that ...READ MORE›

Learn Fast, Learn Well

While the Information Age can deliver facts and data in an instant, wisdom is still learned the old-fashioned way.READ MORE›

Beginner's Luck

According to Thomas Kuhn’s classic book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, youthful exuberance is a key driver of scientific discovery and change. This seems to square up with my own experience of product and service ...READ MORE›

Toyota Unveils Wheelchair Propelled by Thoughts Alone

We'll still have to wait a few years to mind-meld with our Camrys, but researchers at Toyota have unveiled an advanced brain sensing system that controls the movement of a wheelchair by reading a user's thoughts alone. By processing ...READ MORE›

Home Sweet Nursing Facility

Removing your loved one from the familiar environs of home and moving them into a nursing 'home' or facility can be a gut-wrenching experience. It doesn't have to be.READ MORE›

Aging Assumptions

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Think Positive

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VA Benefits & Medicaid

Before applying for Medicaid and VA Non-Service Pension Benefits, check to see if having both will act to disqualify getting Medicaid. “While it’s true that the VA Non-Service Pension Benefits does help with eldercare, which ...READ MORE›

Books on Aging (And Reverse Aging)

RealAge: Are You As Young As You Can Be? by Michael F. Roizen M.D. (Cliff Street Books, 1999) The best compilation of scientific evidence and statistics about what exactly affects aging, for better and for worse. Dr. Bob Arnot's ...READ MORE›

Making a Resolution that Matters

To make resolutions that matter, don't look forward. Look back.READ MORE›