Many retirees I know claim to be retired, but their life resembles a 40 hour work week. At a thrift shop where I volunteer twice a month, there are several retirees who work 4 or 5 days a week. They are in charge of departments—jewelry, furniture, house wares etc. Nobody made them an official boss, …more

Now that I’m retired and have plenty of time on my hands, there’s no excuse to turn down my eighty-nine year old mother when she wants or needs to be driven somewhere. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy spending time with her (a lie) but what really annoys me is having to hear all about …more

There are several financial scams that are primarily targeted at seniors and older adults. The top scams appear to be the following: Fake Prescription Drugs The growth of eCommerce on the Internet provides an easy and convenient way to shop for almost anything that can be purchased in a store. This includes prescriptions. While there …more

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While many may not have the resources that Mr. Blum (below) had the rules about protecting your money still apply. In the land of opportunity, many people have “made it” and made it big. Mr. Roman Blum did just that. However, having amassed close to 40 million dollars, he died last year at the age …more

The first memory I have of coming to the Bronx, NYC is the day we drove – we had a car in those days – to the Bronx for my parents to look at apartments. I didn’t really know what was going on. My cousin San – who it turned out lived only about a …more

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“Why do I write?” friends ask. Let me count the motives for journaling: to express myself freely, to find words to capture feelings and longings, to ride imagination beyond, to review my life, to find my true self, to find my place in the world, and to seek my calling for post-retirement life. Not to …more

For many suffering from painful or debilitating disease, death is the only real relief. For many caregivers, it is the same. Often, worn down by years of attending to the needs of a loved one; years of watching the mental decline from Alzheimer’s disease or other type of dementia; years of watching the frustration and …more

Many people take it upon themselves to offer advice to those of us entering into retirement. Advice flows, telling us to keep busy and don’t sit on the couch all day watching Judge Judy. My eighty-eight year old mother is no exception. I call her every day and she recently said to me, “Now that …more

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