3/07/2014 – An Aging Population Also Poses Opportunities for Retirement Careers (New York Times)

A scent of sage hovers in the air. The soothing, ambient strands of New Age music fill the warm room. Carefully, the 80-year-old woman climbs aboard the heated massage table for her “rub down,” as she calls it.

She has arrived at her regular appointment with Christine Henck, 62, a licensed massage therapist who runs a small private practice out of her home in Bethesda, Md., in what was once her children’s playroom.

Almost from the day she started her business seven years ago, her clientele has skewed toward people in their 60s, 70s and 80s. She charges $70 for an hour and $100 for an hour and a half. She also makes house calls for $125 an hour.

Read the full article at the New York Times.