Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: Life settlements helping seniors fund their retirement needs

Mature Market Experts: More news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market – Life settlements helping seniors fund their retirement needs – Let’s face it, the current economy has not been kind to seniors. According to the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM),  two new reports out [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: Music therapy — new program with pre-loaded iPods for Alzheimer’s

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use of boomers, seniors and the mature market - Music therapy — new program with pre-loaded iPods for Alzheimer’s - Music therapy on iPods. Let’s start with a quote from today’s WSJ article, which gets right to the point: “Ann Povodator, an 85-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: They’ll never get my tonsils!

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors, and the mature market - They’ll never get my tonsils - Several years ago, on the day before my birthday, my appendix broke. It was an amazingly painful experience that left me grateful for the surgeon who removed the little bugger (normally two [...]

Mature Market Experts Stat of The Day: Seniors in Workforce Increases by 101%!

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors, and the mature market - Seniors in Workforce Increases by 101%! - “Between 1977 and 2007, employment of workers 65 and over increased 101 percent, compared to a much smaller increase of 59 percent for total employment (16 and over). The number [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day:An Over-Zealous Mission To Serve Seniors

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market - An Over-Zealous Mission To Serve Seniors - I wanted to follow up on Tom Mann’s blog from last week. It strikes me that if Erickson Retirement Communities can be accused of anything in filing for Chapter 11 [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: Warm Weather, Mitch Albom, Conductorcise, and the International Council on Active Aging Conference

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors, and the mature market - Warm Weather, Mitch Albom, Conductorcise, and the International Council on Active Aging Conference (ICAA) - Need an excuse to get to sunny Florida just when the weather starts to turn? Look no further than the upcoming ICAA [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: Interior Design Key to Aging in Place

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats on boomers, seniors, and the mature market that you can use - Interior Design Key to Aging in Place.
Aesthetics; noun; a branch of philosophy dealing with beauty (Merriam-Webster)
Four years ago I read an article that changed my thinking forever. I had what Buddhist call a “satoir,” or an [...]

Mature Market Experts Stat of the Day: Aging with Style Means a New Luxury Market

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market - Aging with Style Means a New Luxury Market. According to an ASID (The American Society of Interior Designers) survey of U.S. homeowners, 82% plan to stay in their own home for as long as possible, even if [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: How to Be Sure Your Web Page Has Enough Color Contrast for Greatest Legibility

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market - How to Be Sure Your Web Page Has Enough Color Contrast for Greatest Legibility.  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which sets technical standards for the web, has come up with a formula to check that your [...]

Mature Market Experts Stat of The Day: Are Online Video Viewership Claims Realistic?

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market - Are Online Video Viewership Claims Realistic? The October 28th issue of Advertising Age raises some very interesting questions for marketeers to consider before purchasing online ad space. By asking some very pointed questions, author Jim Louderback (the [...]