Retirement

It’s no secret that times are tough for many people right now. With inflation still high, investment accounts with low values, and retirement budgets often fixed, older adults may be struggling to keep up with expenses, let alone afford some little luxuries that one hopes are attainable during retirement. According…

You may not be one of the billionaire tech guys who’s heavily investing in the possibility of living forever or be trying to “hack” your body to the point of aging in reverse, but there’s a good chance that you may live a lot longer than you realize. Certainly, demographic…

Retirement and all of its ramifications is an essential topic of interest for agebuzz readers. We are therefore fortunate to introduce you to Renee Langmuir, founder of the website The Rookie Retiree and our newest agebuzz Guest Blogger. Her regular column will be entitled “The Rookie Retiree” and she will…

This past spring, a survey was conducted by The Associated Press and NORC at The University of Chicago to find out whether older adults are worried about “aging in place.” As it turns out, not so much, at least among those who are 65 and older. According to the survey…

Fall calls to mind travel: to meet up with family for holidays, to make plans for winter vacations, to tick off a destination on your bucket list, or to plan for better weather adventures. But as we’ve previously suggested, travel right now requires thoughtful planning and strategizing, given rising costs,…

Along with Halloween and the changing color of leaves, Fall is the established time for Medicare Open Enrollment, which started on October 15th and runs through December 7th. While this period repeats every year (and we review it each year on agebuzz), your own situation may change from year to…