Age, Chronological
At an Ann Arbor Rock Show, Almost Everyone There Is Over 65
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Every Friday night from September to May, at an off-campus nightclub in this thriving college town, a group of die-hard music fans gathers to dance to some of the most devoted live bands in southeast Michigan. There are women in skintight red dresses, long-haired men sucking down bottles of beer and […]
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Millennials Want to Retire at 50. How to Afford It Is Another Matter.
“You don’t want to have all of your savings in pretax retirement accounts that can be costly to use before age 59.5,” he said. Mr. Northrup will sometimes recommend that his millennial clients reduce their retirement savings to have more cash available for shorter-term goals like buying a house, taking a trip or paying down […]
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Norman Lear: What Archie Bunker Would Have Thought of Donald Trump and Jan. 6
Well, I made it. I am 100 years old today. I wake up every morning grateful to be alive. Reaching my own personal centennial is cause for a bit of reflection on my first century — and on what the next century will bring for the people and country I love. To be honest, I’m […]
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Do Cancer Centers Push Too Many Tests?
Say a postcard arrives in the mail, a reminder to make an appointment for a mammogram. Or a primary care doctor orders a PSA test to screen a man for prostate cancer, or tells him that because of his years of smoking, he should be screened for lung cancer. These patients, trying to be informed […]
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Young Politicians Seek Change, but Face Hurdles as Old as Politics
SEOUL — Jung Seong-hoon, 22, shared the frustrations of young South Koreans looking at a bleak future: Jobs are scarce, rent is high, and debt is climbing. So last month, he ran for a spot on his local city legislature and won. Mr. Jung exemplifies the young blood entering South Korean politics in droves after […]
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‘I Had to Go Back’: Over 55, and Not Retired After All
“If I could’ve left at 62, I would’ve left at 62, but I can’t,” she said. “Not all of us made that money where I could move down to Florida and get a $400,000 house.” The fastest inflation in decades has added to the pressure on people of all ages to return to work. More […]
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How Emily Nunn Turned Salad Into a Soapbox
ATLANTA — Emily Nunn won’t drive on the freeways here, so it can take 45 minutes to get from her apartment to the cavernous indoor Your Dekalb Farmers Market, whose inexpensive and bountiful produce selection she prefers. We hadn’t even reached the lettuce bins before she started in. “Everybody in the food business hates me,” […]
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Making ‘Dinobabies’ Extinct: IBM’s Push for a Younger Work Force
In 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a summary of an investigation into these practices at IBM, which found that there was “top-down messaging from IBM’s highest ranks directing managers to engage in an aggressive approach to significantly reduce the head count of older workers.” But the agency did not publicly release evidence supporting […]
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Why Older Women Face Greater Financial Hardship Than Older Men
After gray divorce, women’s standard of living fell by 45 percent, Dr. Lin and her co-author found, while men’s decreased by just 21 percent. Repartnering, either through remarriage or cohabitation, helped divorced older women regain their financial footing, but only 22 percent of women repartnered, compared with 37 percent of men. (In Ms. Palazzo’s case: […]
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