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From Old to Elder: Reframing & Renaming How We Age
A lot has changed over the course of our lifetime. Improvements in medical care have increased our life expectancy by almost double what it was 100 years ago. More people have a college education today than ever before. Communication has evolved from telephones to text messages to video calls we...
How to Build A Plan To Decide What’s Next For You
In the last four months, our personal and professional lives have changed in ways we could never imagine. The disruptions have been surreal, impacting how we go about our days and how we work. In a way, one of the positives has been that we can leverage much of the...
Pray for the dead, fight and fight like hell for the living
Pray for the Dead, Fight and fight like hell for the Living Mary Harris “Mother” Jones   I learned about “Mother” Jones during the summer before I first taught labor history at Indiana University Northwest. I was an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies, working in a program that provided both...
The Best Technology for Retirement
Connecting with friends. Shopping. Staying informed on current events. Booking transportation. Checking in on loved ones. There are a lot of reasons why retirees today are embracing technology more and more. Approximately seventy percent of older adults now have an internet connection and fifty-one percent have purchased some kind of...
The Best New Ideas in Retirement
The word "retirement" means to withdraw, to retreat from battle. But very few people view their post-career life as such. In fact, for some, it's more of a beginning than an ending. The world has changed more in the last century than it has in all of human time. Communication...
The bagel and the bow
Before being housebound by the coronavirus, I stopped at our local bagel shop every Friday morning. I ordered the same thing: a toasted onion bagel with lox and chive cream cheese. Waiting for my order, I would watch the salesclerk, and, at some point, I became fascinated by the automatic...