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Social Security Keeping Older Women Out of Poverty

By: AARP

More than one in four older women rely on Social Security for nearly all their family income. In 2010 alone, Social Security kept roughly 38 percent of women age 65 and older out of poverty.

Social Security is especially important to women today because:

Women typically earn less on average than men [...]

Gone

There’s little left that I can do. My bones are weak, my strength is gone;

my days of lifting children high, of sending kites up to the sky, of playing softball on the lawn, of climbing sand dunes by the lake, of nailing shingles on a roof, of painting a gable, of planting a [...]

How Health Care Can Stay Afloat

Riding the Age Wave: How Health Care Can Stay Afloat

In an ancient Greek fable, Eos, the beautiful goddess of the dawn, falls deeply in love with the warrior Tithonus. Distraught over his mortality, she goes to Zeus’s chamber to request a special favor: She wants to love Tithonus until the end of time and [...]

The Golden Now – I’m Still a Work In Progress

I have not yet reached those talked-about “golden years,” but already that term distresses me at age 53. Each time my birthday approaches, my husband will jokingly say how I’ll soon be sitting in my rocking chair (along with him, of course) telling stories to our grandchildren like our parents did, and I bite my [...]

Is Retirement Getting Better Or Worse?

Exactly 10 years ago, in 2001, Age Wave conducted the landmark “Re-Visioning Retirement Study” in partnership with SunAmerica Financial Group. The study revealed that the majority of Americans thought they’d be able to comfortably retire in their early to mid 60s. And, thanks to a lifetime of savings, guaranteed company pensions and rock solid government [...]

Is Retirement Getting Better or Worse?

Yes…and yes. It’s time to reset our expectations.

Exactly 10 years ago, in 2001, Age Wave conducted the landmark “Re-Visioning Retirement Study” in partnership with SunAmerica Financial Group. The study revealed that the majority of Americans thought they’d be able to comfortably retire in their early to mid 60s.

And, thanks to a lifetime of [...]

Is retirement getting better or worse?

Exactly 10 years ago, in 2001, Age Wave conducted the landmark “Re-Visioning Retirement Study” in partnership with SunAmerica Financial Group. The study revealed that the majority of Americans thought they’d be able to comfortably retire in their early to mid 60s. And, thanks to a lifetime of savings, guaranteed company pensions and rock solid government [...]