Social Security may be your largest or one of your largest assets. How you manage it, by deciding which benefits to collect and when, can make an absolutely huge difference to your lifetime benefits. And those with the highest past covered earnings have the most to gain from maximizing their Social Security. Read the full […]
Readers discuss the welcome trend toward acknowledging the disease. To the Editor: I commend Frank Bruni for speaking candidly about his grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s (“Confronting an Ugly Killer,” column, Dec. 16). Raising public awareness about this dreadful disease in mainstream media, books and movies is important. But it’s not nearly enough.
As rock-and-roll fills a sunny recreation room at Birmingham Green in Manassas, residents of the assisted-living facility seem swept up in the music as if by a powerful wind. Read the full article at The Washington Post.
They would enter the bank and ask for their cash. Yuriko Asahara, behind the counter, would check where they would stash it — in the side pocket of a handbag or perhaps deep down in a shoulder bag. Asahara wasn’t spying. She knew she’d have to remind them within an hour or two. Many of […]
Researchers could be closing in on a “fountain of youth” drug that can delay the effects of aging and improve the health of older adults, a new study suggests. Read the full article at CBS News.
Compared to other animals, humans have an exceptional age structure: as children, we’re dependent on our parents for an unusually long time and as adults, we live an extremely long time after we’ve stopped procreating. Read the full article at Futurity.
New research suggests that decades of financial experience help seniors stay smart about money matters, despite the mental declines that come with age. Read the full article at U.S. News and World Report.
A great new retirement account, the case for an overlooked workplace savings plan, a push to make your town more retiree-friendly, and more good news from 2014. Read the full article at CNN Money.
Consistent with the research of Laura Carstensen, a psychology professor and director of Stanford University’s Center on Longevity, a MassMutual survey finds that positive emotions increase and negative emotions decrease over time among those in or near retirement. For example, while 72% of retirees say they are “extremely or quite happy,” only 61% of pre-retirees […]
Very few people welcome the aging process with open arms. BeWell spoke with Manjula Waldron, PhD, consulting professor at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, about the often-overlooked positive side of aging and how having a plan for healthy aging can make a real difference. Read the full article at BeWell@Stanford.
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