By Susan Williams The other day the Washington Post published an article on some of the challenges that older workers may experience if they were planning on working in retirement. In their post they cited a term that I hadn’t heard of before – “the gray ceiling“. I’m very familiar with the term glass ceiling – specifically […]

By Joe Casey They say when the student is ready, the teacher appears. But sometimes the teacher shows up early and plants a seed. Twenty-five years ago, I was introduced to a concept that I wasn’t ready to grasp. I was in my mid-thirties, a mid-level HR manager on the way up, with two kids […]

By Joe Casey Should you be worried about Guardianship Fraud? While I tend to focus on the optimistic aspects of retirement, there are many legitimate areas of concern. Will I outlive my money? What will my health be? What about health care? How about long-term care? But there’s another big concern that I was unaware […]

By Susan Williams There was an article a while back about the death of a man who had claimed to be 146 years old. This made me start to wonder. Had he been healthy? Had he been able to spend time with people he cared about? Was he able to do the things he liked to do? […]