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LEARNING

What makes an employer age-friendly?

Here is what you, our readers and reviewers, had to say about age-friendly employers.

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LIVING

The Latest Craze In Senior Living Is...Tiny Homes?

Instead of fixed abodes or aging in place, these intrepid older adults are downsizing and going mobile with the creative, entrancing, and fairy-tale-like tiny homes.

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COVID-19

How To Help Your Local Older Adults During Coronavirus

Here's a brief list of ways to help the members of your community that may be more vulnerable to complications from SARS-CoV-2, as well as how you can help them deal with the social isolation that may come from necessary social distancing measures.

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LIVING

Crowd-sourcing Set To Accelerate Age Friendly Movement

“We need engagement from the bottom in addition to action from the top,” the World Health Organization’s Dr. John Beard tells Age Friendly Advisor.

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CARE

Deciding Where to Live and How to Get Support

Seniors have a variety of choices about where to live.  They include living any place and a variety of special communities for seniors.  Where you live determines access to family, friends and at times a variety of support services.

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COVID-19

What Loss Looks Like During Covid

Have you lost a loved one during covid and struggled to find ways to grieve while separated from family?  Like tens of thousands of older Americans, Jeanne has found herself in the challenging position of navigating the processes of grieving and adapting to life on her own within the unique constraints of the covid world. 

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JOBS

The Case AGAINST Early Retirement

Early retirement seems like the dream—after all, when else but retirement could you have the freedom direct your own schedule and choose what you want to do? But a new article from the Wall Street Journal shows that the reality of early retirement may not be as promising as the allure.

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JOBS

4 More Tips To Help Prevent Elder Financial Fraud

Benchmark Senior Living hosted another helpful workshop and panel spotlighting the broad-ranging scope of elder financial abuse and some simple ways to help shore up your defenses against it.

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COVID-19

Socially-Distanced Grocery Shopping and Delivery to Older Adults

Mature Caregivers is offering socially-distanced Grocery Shopping/Delivery and Errand Services. 

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SOCIAL SECURITY

Social Security for Divorced Spouses

If you are divorced, you may be aware that you can potentially claim retirement benefits based on your ex-spouse’s earnings record, but you may not fully appreciate how important the claiming strategy you select can be to your lifetime income.

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