Successful/Productive aging – The Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work

Crafting an Interesting Job: Stimulating an Active Role of Older Workers in Enhancing Their Daily Work Engagement and Job Performance

These results demonstrate that older workers can be stimulated daily to engage in effective job crafting behaviors to make sure that they are motivated and productive members of the workforce.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/2X6RljN

July 30, 2020

Retiring Retirement: The Rise Of Life’s Third Age

It’s time to write the next act – about reframing aging and enabling people to thrive in the Third Age.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3f9TPUx

The Encore Network is Hiring

The Encore Network seeks a part-time executive director to help lead our movement, expand our impact, and support members in making longer lives a resource for individuals and communities.

Resource URL: https://encore.org/jobs-encore-org/

How Ads Do a Terrible Job Portraying Older Adults

The ‘What Retirees Want’ authors say ageism is bad for people and for business

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/2E64QK1

July 20, 2020

What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life’s Third Age

In this entertaining, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging book, Dychtwald and Morison explain how individuals, businesses, non-profits, and governments can best prepare for a new era–where the needs and demands of the Third Age will set the lifestyle, health, social, marketplace, and political priorities of generations to come.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/2WofF07

July 15, 2020

On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age: Older Americans Reflect on the Pandemic

If discourse on aging in the time of Covid-19 focuses only on vulnerability, we perpetuate implicit ageist assumptions—such as that older people cannot employ new virtual technologies, that they are not creative and resourceful in times of dramatic change, and that being old is bad.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3h5Z1dJ

A Guide to Starting Your Own Business after the age of 50: In Conversation with Wendy Mayhew

In this podcast, Wendy Mayhew, author of ‘WISER; the definitive guide to starting a business after the age of 50, talks about why now might be a great time to start your own enterprise.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3dWK4bH

July 5, 2020

AARP Partners with Getty Images to Make Aging Cool

In other words, AARP wants to make turning 50 and joining the ranks of a senior set whose ranks are estimated to be around 110 million look cooler. Because many of them are, and that’s just not reflected in the media.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3ibXC6H

Global Reach of Ageism on Older Persons’ Health: A Systematic Review

Although there is anecdotal evidence of ageism occurring at both the structural level (in which societal institutions reinforce systematic bias against older persons) and individual level (in which older persons take in the negative views of aging of their culture), previous systematic reviews have not examined how both levels simultaneously influence health. Thus, the impact of ageism may be underestimated. We hypothesized that a comprehensive systematic review would reveal that these ageism levels adversely impact the health of older persons across geography, health outcomes, and time.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/31IBknj

Purpose and a Paycheck: Finding Meaning, Money, and Happiness in the Second Half of Life

Books on retirement tend to focus primarily on financial planning. Economist and journalist Chris Farrell covers the financial side of the road, but he also goes beyond that in this inspiring book. He tells the captivating story of how baby boomers are re-inventing themselves – and retirement – through self-employment and entrepreneurship.

Resource URL: https://www.retirementwisdom.com/books/purpose-and-a-paycheck/

June 23, 2020

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