JUNE 22 |
BILL FREY: THE MILLENIAL GENERATION – A DEMOGRAPHIC BRIDGE TO AMERICA’S DIVERSE FUTURE
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Join us for a presentation by Bill Frey, of the Brookings Institution, who is an internationally regarded demographer, known for his research on urban populations, migration, immigration, race, aging, political demographics and his expertise on the U.S. Census. His latest report, "The Millennial Generation – A Demographic Bridge to America’s Diverse Future,” examines the demographic makeup of millennials for the nation, the largest 100 metropolitan areas, and all 50 states and discusses the impacts resulting from these demographic shifts. Following Bill’s talk will be a panel discussion led by Stanford Professor, Aliya Saperstein, further examining the changes in the demographic makeup of the US.
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May 24, 2018
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How Much Can You Spend in Retirement?
Saving up enough money is the first step of retirement. You also need to determine how much you can spend without running out of money in your later, more vulnerable years.
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May 21, 2018 |
Stanford Medicine
Hear and Now: Better, Less Costly Treatments for Hearing Loss Coming Soon
As far as Amy Yotopoulos could tell, her father, Edwin Lutz, was changing with age, the way most people do. He had become more introverted and quiet, less engaged. But he was still the same. He was simply finding everything harder to hear.
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May 8, 2018 |
AP News
More Americans Expect to Work Until 70; There are Benefits.
When it comes to retirement, later may be better. Americans long viewed 65 as the age to stop working. It was considered full retirement age by Social Security for many, Medicare benefits kick in then and historical practice had established it as the goal. Now some experts are suggesting people set their sights a bit higher — on 70.
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May 7, 2018 |
CBS MoneyWatch
A Sure Way for Retirees to Extend Their "Life"
If you could add more than two years to your life during retirement, would you be interested? That's a provocative possibility suggested by an insightful report titled "
The State of Retirees: How Longer Lives Have Changed Retirement," prepared by the advisory firm United Income. Is this feat of life extension the result of the latest advances in medicine and science? Not quite.
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Retirement Adequacy in the United States: Should We Be Concerned?
Vickie Bajtelsmit, PhD, and Anna Rappoport, FSA
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Is there a retirement crisis looming in the United States? This question instigates intense debate among researchers, policy-makers, employers, financial institutions, retirement planners, and individuals. To help answer this question, veteran retirement researchers Vickie Bajtelsmit, PhD, and Anna Rappoport, FSA, reviewed and summarized various studies of retirement adequacy in a report sponsored and funded by the Society of Actuaries.
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Power of Purposeful Adults 50+
Stanford University and Encore.org
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If you want help, ask someone 50+! This is one of the six findings in the Pathways to Encore Purpose (PEP) project, a collaboration between the Stanford Graduate School of Education’s Center on Adolescence and Encore.org. The research examined older adults’ life goals, prosocial values and behaviors, perspectives on the progression to later life and prevalence of purpose in their post-midlife, or encore, years.
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The Relation of Volunteering and Subsequent Changes in Physical Disability in Older Adults
Dawn C. Carr, Ben Lennox Kail and
John W. Rowe
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If you want to reduce your risk of physical disability in later life, we usually think about exercise. But according to this new study by former SCL colleague Dr. Dawn Carr and SCL Advisory Council member Dr. Jack Rowe, starting a new habit of volunteering can improve physical function and lower levels of future disability. Both the intensity of volunteering (low intensity = less than 99 hours/year, high intensity = more than 100 hours/year) and gender had an effect on outcomes.
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