As a retiree, you may find that you want to get a job for various reasons. You may need to get a job for a salary, to earn a living, to keep yourself busy and engaged in life or other reasons. Sometimes it could be hard since you are not sure what to do or where to find the right work for you as a senior person. IF you are [...]

Retirement is one word that most baby boomers do not like the sound of. Baby boomer is a term commonly used in America to refer to senior people with over fifty years of age. Not many people are ready to see themselves retired and research has shown that few are ready to retire when the time comes. Most have been seen to continue working for money as well as other [...]

Sad as nowadays long time marriages easily break up. The rate of divorce among senior couples has recently doubled and research has shown that nowadays divorces for couples with over fifty years of age accounts for twenty five percent of break ups. It can happen to any couple, after spending decades of years together saving and investing, financial fallout in such a divorce is quite high. It is therefore essential [...]

Earth Day is an important day for us where we appreciate the earth, assess its changes and see how best we, the mature, can protect it. It is disappointingly true that man’s activities have greatly affected our global home’s health. Here are some quick facts you ought to know: 1. The planet is around 5 billion years old. 2. Global warming came after each of a few of the famous [...]

91 year old Robert Lane began his environmental activism in 2006. Along with the residents of New Haven, Conn, Robert formed a “Green Council” to explore how they would make the Whitney Center, their retirement home, a more eco-friendly human habitat. Management at the center made it clear that money had to be conserved along with the environment. So the Green Council looks for ways to save both and have [...]

A 55-year-old communications consultant from New Jersey, recycles, composts and wouldn’t pay a premium for an eco-friendly hotel room or for cleaning products. “It’s not that I can’t afford these; I just don’t believe in paying more. I am that ‘green’,” says Elizabeth Romanaux. She is among a rising number of the aging Americans rebelling against the costly side of environmentalism, those who believe that value-for-money outdoes value-for-planet. Most people [...]

Retirement is viewed as the commencement of old age, a transition from early adulthood to late adulthood. It brings forth a major role change for it alters the way a person manages time and daily activities. It also modifies his/her identity, power, status, and friendships. A big step indeed in everyone’s life, a redefinition of roles of different people. The overall health of an older person is determined by a [...]

The only thing that could save you from age discrimination and prevent abuse from happening to you is that if you arm yourself with proper knowledge and information about age discrimination. What pains me is when I hear stories from my senior friends telling me about how they lost their jobs or how they were not able to land a job they really wanted just because of their age. The [...]

It is not right to put all the blame on the recession. Truth be told, we were living a very spoiled life prior to the recession and some countries were not hit as hard as we had been. Granted, some of us seniors suddenly found ourselves in face of our deepest, darkest fears: losing our homes, no jobs, vulnerable nest eggs, etc. All we could think about is why these [...]

No matter how poor you see yourself right now, there is definitely an estate to plan hence the need for an executor. An executor is someone who will administer your estate when you pass away and he or she should be someone who is very much capable of doing so — not to mention, willing to. To be able to know both, you and your executor should have “the talk” [...]