The Age of Actualization is a magnificent addition to the literature on both aging and positive psychology. More importantly in these dire times, it may be a critical source of wisdom we humans need to right our ship.
Continue ReadingBelow is a list of ChangingAging’s regular blog contributors. Martin Bayne Journalist, Buddhist monk, MIT graduate, and founder of the blog The Voice of Aging Boomers, Martin Bayne has had a colorful career. At the age of nineteen, while working at the Times Herald Record, he was contacted by the mother of a soldier serving in […]
Continue ReadingThe proverbial answer to who wants to be 100 is the 99-year-old. But nowadays, quite a few people are obsessed with living to 100 or beyond. I recently searched through the social networking site Meetup.com looking for groups that had formed around issues related to aging and elderhood. What I found was interesting: The number […]
Continue ReadingI have favored a Medicare buy in from the start. Medicare is one of the best run, most efficient, most popular and successful of all government programs. It makes sense to allow more people to buy-in to it. Here is a round up from the Atlantic… * Alternative Worth Considering The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn […]
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In a time when politicians and deficit hawks are advocating raising the eligibility age for Medicare, we should actually be pressing to do the exact opposite.
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On March 7 RLTV will broadcast a special report on the changing nature of retirement in the US, in particular the impact of the current economic climate on retirees.
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Getting older is one of life’s inescapables, although life is certainly better now for older Americans than at any other time in history. We live longer, more active lives than our parents and grandparents certainly did – today’s average 65 year-old man and woman can expect to live to be 81 and 85, respectively – and science has proven that we’re still able to learn new things, even if we don’t learn as quickly as we did in our younger years. These are all things to celebrate
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Here are a few “tricks of the trade” designed by Big Pharma to make you spend far more money than you need — buyer beware!
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