Matthew Heimer, Wall Street Journal Encore blog

Do you lie to yourself about retirement?

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Lying to yourself—it sounds so harsh when you put it that way. The more gentle way to frame the question is: “Do you tell yourself reassuring things, things that probably aren’t entirely true, so that you can live with the financial decisions and compromises you’re making?” That’s a little less blunt, but, when you think about it, no less unsettling.

Audi, Toyota join self-driving bandwagon

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I believe I’m a pretty good driver (although I’m also aware that, in perhaps the world’s most often-cited example of the Lake Wobegon Effect, most Americans feel the same way). I’m also reasonably sure that I won’t be as good a driver twenty-five years from now, when I’ll be in my late sixties and my senses and reflexes are likely to be considerably less sharp.

In long-term care, the U.S. lags

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Without much fanfare, the Senate Special Committee on Aging released a report earlier this month on the subject of how the U.S. is progressing in caring for older adults diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The committee compared health-care infrastructure with that of Japan, Australia, France and the United Kingdom – countries chosen because they have demographics and economies similar to ours.

The report found that these countries were all ahead of us on the Alzheimer’s care front. But as Judith Graham points out in a sharply observed piece today on the New Old Age blog, the study also unearthed statistics that suggest that long-term care for America’s elderly in general is lagging behind the rest of the world’s standards.

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