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Real Concerns Emerging With Reverse Mortgages

  Once touted as one of the best ways for an Older American to supplement their retirement years, reverse mortgages are coming under pretty intense scrutiny. Reverse mortgages  allow homeowners 62 and...

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Brain Health – It’s All In Your Head!

Image Source Page: http://bornstoryteller.wordpress.com/tag/fine-arts-education/ Our brain is an amazing organ.  It grows and develops, learns and changes as we do.  Our brain houses our personality...

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Planning for Retirement Starts Now!

As a Baby Boomer, I wrestle with whether or not I’ve planned well for retirement.  Have I put enough in my IRA?  Will my 401 do well or should I consider reinvesting it or put more in it where it is?...

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Moving On…

Well, the election is over and no matter who you voted for, the result is the same, we have a duly elected President and Congress and they have a job to do and now they MUST come together, cross their...

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Dangling from the Fiscal Cliff…The Budget Technicality That Could Change Your...

Government improves our daily lives, whether we realize it or not. It provides for the teacher in our children’s classrooms. The roads and bridges on which we drive. The commuter rails we ride to...

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Baby Boomers and Their Impact on the Bottomline

An issue I’ve been studying for a while now is what the impact will be of employed Baby Boomers with caregiving responsibilities on their employer’s bottom line.  My hypothesis is that these employed...

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Long-Term Care and the Fiscal Cliff Deal

As part of the deal to prevent the fall over the fiscal cliff, two provisions that could significantly impact national long-term care strategy were quietly passed as part of overall package.  These...

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Boomer Re-employment – A Different Option

  In a NY Times article today, In Hard Economy for All Ages, Older Isn’t Better … It’s Brutal, the author, Catherine Rampell, talks about how unemployed Baby Boomers are perhaps the hardest hit during...

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Boomers – Creating New Opportunities – Part 2

During my last blog, we began talking about what unemployed baby boomers can do to create other options in their search for employment. I recommended thinking about things you like to do, things...

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It Ain’t the Age, It’s the Activity!

  In today’s Washington Post “MisFits” column, Lenny Berstein introduces us to a gentleman named Roy Clark, who at 102 works out several times a week with his 70 year old personal trainer.  Mr. Clark...

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