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The COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Financially Fragile and Aging Societies
The financial fragility of households and the rising proportion of people becoming obese calls for intensified efforts, both by individuals and employers to create financial buffers and keep on investing in health.
Resource URL: https://bit.ly/2HltGaC
October 21, 2020
As They Aged, They Started Businesses for People Like Them
After working for others, some Americans find opportunities in working for themselves — while catering to people growing older.
Resource URL: https://nyti.ms/2FBJ6GL
Making a New Start in a Business of Their Own
Whether because of layoffs or a desire for a new challenge, older people are becoming entrepreneurs at an increasing rate.
Resource URL: https://nyti.ms/3jl4Ioy
How Gen Z & Young Millennials Are Redefining Life Stages, Markets & Retirement For Everyone
And, while living with mom and dad well past legal drinking age may not be “terrible,” staying home impacts the lives of both young adults and their parents.
Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3k0220Y
October 14, 2020
How COVID-19’s 168-Hour Workweek Is Changing Work In Retirement
Large swaths of the workforce were forced to work from home. Even after offices reopen, the idea of flexible work has become more far more flexible, making the question of retirement for many less about when to stop work, but instead how much do you want to work?
- Aging and Retirement
- COVID-19
- Encore careers
- Engagement in later life
- Older workers
- Scheduling, Leave, and Flexible Work
- Successful/Productive aging
Resource URL: https://bit.ly/33UQw1g
Women’s Career Trajectories Can Be a Model for an Aging Workforce
Managers and organizations will need to be skilled at supporting both men and women through the reshaping and pacing of careers that stretch over 50 years.
- Age-friendly organizations
- COVID-19
- Diversity and Aging
- Employer Policies & HR Management
- Scheduling, Leave, and Flexible Work
Resource URL: https://bit.ly/319cbRt
Intrinsically Rewarding Work and Generativity in Midlife: The Long Arm of the Job
The results demonstrate the potential of the workplace to prompt growth in midlife generativity.
- Age-friendly organizations
- Employer Policies & HR Management
- Engagement in later life
- Job quality for older adults
- Older workers
Resource URL: https://bit.ly/33YjUDZ
How Can Policymakers Close the Racial Gap in Retirement Security?
Other policy options could help level the playing field for Black workers and savers, helping them overcome the systemic racism that often obstructs wealth building and limits retirement security.
Resource URL: https://urbn.is/3nNpmkO
Gendered Ageism Is The New Sexism
To combat gendered ageism, the first call to action must be calling attention to the problem. Companies won’t look for solutions to a problem that they don’t know or believe exists.
- Age bias/ageism
- Age-friendly organizations
- Diversity and Aging
- Employer Policies & HR Management
- Job quality for older adults
- Older workers
Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3d4WWOo
October 9, 2020
Working and Disability Expectancies at Older Ages: The Role of Childhood Circumstances and Education
We assess how childhood disadvantages combine with education to affect working and health trajectories.
Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3lzfRE3
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