The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched [...] [read full article…]
Legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week aimed at making it easier for older Americans to stay in the workforce longer and encourage employers to recruit and retain older workers. The bill has bi-partisan sponsorship of Senators Gordon H. Smith (R-OR), Herb Kohl (D-WI), and Kent Conrad (D-ND). I’ll have more on this in [...] [read full article…]
Two of the country’s best-known life-planning authors will co-lead a workshop in Chicago aimed at helping people think through their second acts. Richard N. Bolles, author of the best-selling book, What Color Is Your Parachute? and Richard Leider, veteran author, speaker and pioneer in life-work planning, will lead the May 29 - 30 event. It’s [...] [read full article…]
The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) wants your Beatles memories. Working with scientists at the University of Leeds, the BA is running an online survey aimed at creting the world’s largest database of “autobiographical memories” every undertaken. The timing: 44 years ago this month, the Beatles occupied the top five positions on [...] [read full article…]
“In the era of an aging population, memory is the new sex.” –New York Times columnist David Brooks on The Great Forgetting. [read full article…]
The income gender gap is well known. But did you know that the economic gap between men and women spills over into retirement?The largest segment of Americans living in poverty is elderly women. The gender gap in retirement income security is appallingly high, for several reasons. First, women earn about a third less than men make [...] [read full article…]
Americans’ confidence about their ability to retire comfortably has fallen sharply and stands at the lowest level in seven years, according to survey research released today by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). The percentage of individuals highly confident about their retirement outlook dropped from 27 percent to 18 percent, according to EBRI. Other key findings: Health [...] [read full article…]
There’s no shortage of bad news about aging and retirement. Whether it’s ballooning Social Security and Medicare payments or the brain drain of millions of baby boomers leaving the workforce, the headlines all seem to focus on the increasing burdens of an aging population. There’s not much we can do about aging; we’re all doing it. [...] [read full article…]
Q: I retired to Lakeland, Florida seven years ago, and I am so surprised that even though we have many colleges in this area, none of them offer adult ed classes like I used to take in Fairfax, Virginia. I realize that there are probably limited resources for the colleges, but I think it could be a very [...] [read full article…]
If you’re over 50, you need exercise to stay fit-no disputing that. But what are you doing to keep your brain lean and mean? The concept of brain fitness has caught fire lately, with much of the attention focused on a new breed of software programs and games that claim to help older people maintain mental [...] [read full article…]
RetirementRevised.com is the companion website of Retire Smart, a column written by Mark Miller that appears in more than 30 newspapers each week. For millions of Baby Boomers, retirement is an opportunity for reinvention, rather than taking it easy. Mark is helping write the playbook for the new career and personal pursuits of a generation.
