Mature Market Experts Gem of the Day: Bike Market Adapts for Boomers

Mature Market Experts: More news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market – Bike Market Adapts for Boomers. As baby boomers age they are searching for ways to stay healthy with excercise, save gas money and go green. Many are looking to purchase a new bike, but one that accommodates [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: Aging in Place: Men + Ladders = Trouble

There’s a lady who’s sure
All that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven…

-Led Zeppelin
 
Joan was out shopping on a sunny Saturday afternoon; something she [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of the Day: Aging in Place: Addendum to Men + Ladders = Trouble

 
Carelessness doesn’t bounce; it shatters.
~Hartman Jule
 
Is your husband going to hang Christmas lights this week? Consider this first:
 
I was reminded of a life-altering experience between man & ladder at work this week. A colleague, let’s call him “Stann,” recounted a run in with some cement involving a ladder years ago that changed his life [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of the Day: Is Loneliness Contagious?

Mature Market Experts: More news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market – Is Loneliness Contagious? In December’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researcher John T. Cacioppo, a University of Chicago psychologist, states that “Loneliness can be transmitted. Loneliness is not just the property of an [...]

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 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 Gem Of The Day: Exercise And Aging

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use about boomers, seniors, and the mature market - Exercise and Aging - I recently returned from presenting Conductorcise in Texas and California. Every time I visit new venues, I meet the most unbelievable people. I would like to share with you the learning, the joy [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of the Day: Adjust Your Diet to Your Slowing Metabolism

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors and the mature market  - Adjust Your Diet to Your Slowing Metabolism. Sad but true, your metabolism slows down as you age (I know, I’m experiencing it myself). Doctors say there  are five easy tips to help boomers combat the midlife bulge. One, realize that as [...]

Mature Market Experts Gem of the Day: Can Infections Lead to Greater Memory Loss in Alzheimer Patients?

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats you can use on boomers, seniors, and the mature market - Can Infections Lead to Greater Memory Loss in Alzheimer Patients? Researchers have recently discovered a possible link between the occurrence of a severe or on-going infection due to a cold, the flu or even a bruise in [...]