Not So Small World After All?

  It’s a world of laughter – A world of tears It’s a world of hopes – And a world of fears There’s so much that we share – That it’s time we’re aware It’s a small world after all … -Written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman BMI (body mass index): A [...]

Berks County Retirement Community First In Nation To Utilize Innovative Brain Fitness Program

Heritage of Green Hills Serves As Prototype For Super Noggin Over the next 18 years the baby boomer tidal wave will reach the shores of retirement.  Add to that the fact that people over 85 are now the fastest-growing segment of the population, and the result is that by 2050, the number of Americans 85 [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: After the genetic test, living to 100 had better be better

Line up to learn your longevity likelihood.  Aren’t you just loving the opportunity we will soon have to download that free genetic marker test kit, the one that with 77% accuracy will tell whether we will live past 100? Boston University scientists have ‘no plans to profit’ from the results, but they will make the kit [...]

Mature Market Experts Stat of The Day: MetLife — Are boomers in the middle…of self-delusion?

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors, and the mature market – MetLife — Are boomers in the middle…of self-delusion? Baby boomers born between 1952 and 1958 — not getting old any time soon.  I’ve often thought that one end of the baby boomer age range has nothing in [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: 5 Important Trends for The Ages

Mature Market Experts: stats and news you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market – 5 Important Trends for The Ages – Ever since I wrote Death of the Continuing Care Retirement Community on our Mature Market Experts blog, people have been asking me what the future holds for our aging population. Here [...]

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 [...]

Mature Market Experts Stat of the Day: American Baby Boomers’ Retirement Horizons Shifting With Home Values

Mature Market Experts: More news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market – American Baby Boomers’ Retirement Horizons Shifting With Home Values – According to an October newsletter from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, American baby boomers just reaching retirement age are far more likely to be in debt (and [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: Here Comes “Nana Technology”

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market – Here comes “Nana Technology.” Andrew Carle, assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, uses the term, nana technology (as opposed to nanotechnology), to describe the technology being developed to assist baby boomers as they age. [...]

Mature Market Experts Stat of the Day: Seniors Keep on Working

Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Seniors Keep on Working. Many seniors are are choosing to work into their 70′s and 80′s for various reasons. Due to financial concerns in the recent economy, countless baby boomers are no longer secure that they have the funds to sustain a retirement that [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of the Day: AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors, and the mature market – AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project. This innovative project strives to replicate the  longevity and health discovered in “Blue Zones”.  Scientists have studied the habits and practices of these unusually long lived populations from around the globe. Now, many [...]