“My dream is to spend the first five to eight years of our retirement visiting parts of the world that we’ve always wanted to see. But I don’t want to live it up and then spend the rest of our retirement wondering whether I can afford to buy my grandkid two scoops of ice cream instead of one.”
What kind of disease can kill millions but be stopped in its tracks by a hot bath and a change of clothes?
Why all the hate? What is with an anti-Baby Boomer movement that I seem to be seeing more of? Imagine my surprise when I read a movie review of Toy Story 4 in which the reviewer ruefully looked at the actions of cowboy Woody and thought: “God, that’s such a baby-boomer move.” The bias gets worse from there, believe it or not.
No less of an authority than the World Economic Forum has confirmed the obvious: there’s a retirement crisis in this country that is only set to get worse. A WEF report compares several major economies and comes up with a stark conclusion. There’s a $28 trillion retirement savings gap in this country that will become a $137 trillion savings gap by 2050.
The mighty oak tree can live up to 250 years. So what was ravaging the forests of California, killing trees from the inside out? Scientists call the phenomenon Sudden Oak Death and now they know what causes it.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: travel 300 million miles searching for signs of life on a planet so extreme that you will succumb to its elements within 3 months. That’s the story of robotic explorers known as rovers, who probe the surface of Mars on a geology field trip like no other.
Rewind back to before Chip Conley received an Influencer in Aging award, before his TED talk and his book. Conley was a seasoned entrepreneur looking for new challenges. He got one in the form of a call from the head of Airbnb, a young startup that wanted to grow and wanted his help. There Conley found his footing working across generations as what he calls a “modern elder.”
Sabrina McLaughlin Smith 