Mature Market Experts

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Archive for February, 2010

The Name Game: Brain Fitness

All, I’d like to ask you a favor. I’d like your help naming a unique brain fitness program for I am working with. This program is unique in the brain fitness business because of the comprehensive breadth of the programs (and the fact that they are a not for profit). They utilize state-of-the-art technology with [...]

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Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: Seniors, road rage, IPads, consumer products and why older women rule the world!

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors, and the mature market – Seniors, road rage, IPod phones, consumer products and why older women rule the world! (For some reason when we migrated our blog from our old blog URL to this one, this posting disappeared, so I figured I’d [...]

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Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: Death of the “Continuing Care Retirement Community”

  Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on seniors, boomers and the mature market – Death of the “Continuing Care Retirement Community” – I am about to make myself some enemies. At Love and Company, we believe that marketing your retirement community as Continuing Care retirement community may be one of the worst [...]

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Mature Market Experts Stat of the Day: After the Downturn, Will Seniors Retire?

Mature Market Experts: More news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market – After the Downturn, Will Seniors Retire? A new study released by economists Thomas Steinmeier of Texas Tech and Alan Gustman and Nahid Tabatabai of Dartmouth College suggests that most baby boomers will recover sufficiently from the 2008/2009 [...]

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Mature Market Experts Stat of the Day: Baby Boomers Boom into Volunteerism

Mature Market Experts: More news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market – Baby Boomers Boom into Volunteerism - Volunteerism is on the rise in the US. Some site the realization of increased need in this difficult economy as their motivator. Others are unemployed and willing and able to contribute their [...]

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Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day – The Future Face of Aging in Place

 (photo cdn.physorg.com)   Care: (v. caring) 1) Be interested in or concerned about something 2) feel affection 3) tend to somebody or something –Encarta Dictionary (2002) Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you. Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid [...]

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