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June 13, 2014
From Mail Online: Flexible hours push to help the over-50s stay in work: Pensions Minister says older generation are 'vast untapped talent'
From Mail Online: Flexible hours push to help the over-50s stay in work: Pensions Minister says older generation are 'vast untapped talent'
From Mail Online: Rise of the reluctant grandmothers: The women loath to swap careers and killer heels for knitted bootees (Plenty of debate in the 'Comments' secion...)
From Mail Online: £11,000 a year... the cost of a happy retirement: Spending 468 hours on hobbies and seeing grandchildren also makes pensioners' lives happier
From Mail Online: Record numbers of pensioners taken to A&E after poisoning themselves with cocaine and cannabis
From Mail Online: 'Greying' workforce is 'squeezing younger generation out of jobs' after over-50s see 90% rise in employment
From Mail Online: Can fasting for two days each week stop dementia?
From BBC News: The myth of the eight-hour sleep
From NYT via msnbc.com: Dementia behind bars makes caregivers of killers
From Mail Online: Scientists discover gene linked to age-related deafness in breakthrough that could bring treatment a step closer
My dad, who is 77 and does daily gym sessions and Body Pump and Spinning classes, hates "being around old people"... I think he'd appreciate the people in this msn.com article: Accomplishing amazing athletic feats - in their 80s and 90s.
From MSN Money: The end of retirement as we know it