Barack Obama’s hair turned a little gray during his 20-month quest for the presidency but he’s hardly the only one showing some age. President-elect Obama will lead a country that is aging rapidly as the huge baby boomer generation heads toward retirement. By the year 2030, there will be 72 million Americans over age 65–about [...] [read full article…]
I’ve just signed on as a contributor to one of my favorite news websites, The Huffington Post. Founded by author and nationally syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, HuffPost is one of the fastest-growing sites on the web. HuffPost is best known for political and media coverage, but the site also features coverage of business, lifestyle [...] [read full article…]
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert focuses today on how foreclosures are impacting older Americans. Herbert cites a recent AARP Public Policy research report that breaks new ground in quantifying mortgage delinquencies by age group. The study concludes that Americans over age 50 represented 28 percent of all mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures at the end [...] [read full article…]
A coalition of groups including AARP, Elderhostel, and the Vital Aging Network sponsored the First Positive Aging Conference in December 2007. I attended the event, and it was an extraordinary gathering of more than 400 people who came together to learn, talk and network about purpose, meaning and vitality in the second half of life. [...] [read full article…]
At age 71, Bob Schieffer of CBS News isn’t the oldest journalist moderating a presidential debate this election season. Jim Lehrer of PBS is 74. Still, Schieffer may have a more-than-passing interest in issues related to retirement and aging—and I hope you do, too. The challenges facing the next president include the long-term solvency of Social [...] [read full article…]
If you’ve been distracted lately by lipstick, bridges to nowhere and the ongoing financial meltdown on Wall Street, you might have missed one of this election season’s most significant events. On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, Barack Obama and John McCain participated in a presidential forum on national service. The forum was part of a Service [...] [read full article…]
Barack Obama and John McCain will both speak at the ServiceNation Summit in New York City this week. They’ll appear at an evening forum tomorrow focused on civic engagement and service; the event will be in observation of the seventh anniversary of 9/11; it will be moderated by PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent and Political [...] [read full article…]
More than half of Americans over age 60 say that today’s economic conditions are the worst they have ever experienced. The tough economy has affected the way they spend money, but not their plans for retirement. That’s the conclusion of a [...] [read full article…]
An AARP survey shows that 89 percent of Americans would like to live in their current homes as long as possible–and the number rose to 95 percent when people over age 75 were asked the question. But that same AARP survey shows that most people aren’t doing the proactive thinking necessary to make that a [...] [read full article…]
I always cringe when magazines and cable TV networks run stories on the “best places to retire.” The usual approach is to crunch data about a variety of livability factors such as the cost of housing, taxes and the average number of sunny days per year. Follow the data crunchers and you’ll soon be packing [...] [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.
