When I joined Senior Community Centers 17 years ago, our nutritional program provided a nutritious lunch each day, Monday through Friday, to San Diego’s low-income seniors. For many, it was their only meal of the day. I observed seniors saving the apple or banana from their tray to eat for dinner.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Few communities have started to think long term about how to plan and redesign services for aging baby boomers as they move out of the workforce and into retirement.
The increase in life expectancy has placed the baby boomer generation in the unique position of having to take care of their parents while simultaneously preparing for retirement and planning out what to leave for their children to inherit.
Here in San Diego, one in 10 people are over the age of 65, and that number will double by 2030 as more of the Baby Boom generation become seniors. This “graying of America” will put tremendous strain on our infrastructure, especially the Medicare system.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce in 1972, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the telephones and the hot new technology revolutionizing communication was the fax machine.
CHICAGO (AP) -- When it comes to athletics, even the fittest baby boomers are finding aging bodies aren't as nimble as young ones, and they're more prone to minor damage that can turn serious if ignored.
In November 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau released statistics giving us a real snapshot of what the U.S. senior population looks like now and what is to come in the future. And it’s a warning for all of us.
The baby boomer generation seems to affect housing construction more these days, leading home builders and remodelers to gear their business more toward that demographic.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Baby boomers take note: Medicare as your parents have known it is headed for big changes no matter who wins the White House in 2012. You may not like it, but you might have to accept it.
It’s getting to be that time again for New Year’s resolutions, the annual effort that often ends in futility. However, a new survey finds more Americans have rearranged their objectives for 2012 from surviving to thriving.
Despite common belief, Americans are doing a pretty good job of saving and investing for their retirement. And a new report suggests people in San Diego are doing a better job of planning for their financial futures than most other people in the country.
In an economy that has produced many start-ups, as some people have sought to turn misfortune into opportunity, Arnold Jaffa, 82, isn't the least bit interested in letting go of what he considers to be a major part of himself -- a desire to help people succeed.
Derek Davis, president and founder of DavisReed Construction, describes his company as fast-moving and adaptable, creative and quick thinking, with a more relaxed culture and an emphasis on the individual. If that sounds more like a startup than a general contractor with as much as $300 million in revenues, it’s by design.
Jan. 10, 2013 -- George Chamberlin speaks with Phillip Banks of Banks & Banks Fiduciary Services, and Daniel Abbott, a firm member with Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek, about the role of a fiduciary.
Nov. 1, 2011 -- Executive Editor George Chamberlin talks with Hubert H. Humphrey III, assistant director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new Office of Older Americans, about the program.
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