In last week’s post Retirement Industry, in the Middle of an Evolution, I referenced a 2003 Statistics Canada Symposium in Ottawa in which I participated as a panelist in a discussion on later life career decisions and the 50 plus worker’s participation in an aging workforce. A couple of follow up comments are in order,
How soon should you start saving for your older age, your gilded years or if you still prefer to call it, that retirement at the end of a long and winding road? Not soon enough it appears. As if there weren’t enough to worry about, whether you are 22, 42 or 62; a financial planning
Given the number of conferences on aging and longevity around the world in 2015, I pick up from my June blog comments that we are at a watershed year on “age-talk”. Maybe because my head is in this dialogue space, for several years now – researching, writing, presenting and conversing; one could say that though,
Should the holiday season goal to be “befriend an architect”? Yes I will. Architect Matthew Barac was a perfect choice as the closer to the Royal Institute of British Architects report – Silver Linings: The Active Third Age and The City. Let’s postscript this blog series with a quote from him as we contemplate urban
Weather patterns changed again this past week around the world. In Canada, wind and rain and crisper temps seemed a great backdrop to a spooky Halloween. And in the stirring of so many steamy hot cauldrons of news (like Senate Scandals and City Hall Hijinks) came bubbling up a somewhat “lost in the steam” item
New thinking. Creativity. Innovation. Everyone’s talking this way about absolutely everything, and the forum for exploration, ingenuity and product development is seen as being in the “new labs” where whatever issues in discussion are pitched like experiments. The Coffee Houses of the 18th century were labs for new thinking as were discussion clubs like the