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Meet the Newest Chicago Intern!

Posted on 05/13/2013 by | All the news that matters for Illinoisans over 50. | Comments

Your LifeHi everyone! My name is Debbie and I’m the newest Communications intern of the Chicago office. I am currently a Master of Public Health student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I majored in Community Health and minored in Gerontology and in Business at the same University for my undergraduate career. My background is in health and wellness and I love working with older adults! I have volunteered at different nursing homes and retirement centers in Chicago and in …

Games for the 50+: A New Outlet for Mentoring

Posted on 05/13/2013 by | Home & Family blogger | Comments

Home & Family | Technology | Your LifeOver the past few weeks, I’ve written about the gaming study by Dr. Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, associate professor and department chair, and Dr. Aaron Delwiche, associate professor, of the Department of Communication at Trinity University. For the final installment in this series, I want to focus on a very interesting insight from Drs. Henderson and Delwiche — many older gamers really like the mentoring aspect of multiplayer online games. It’s not about the competition but about helping others. As we …

Pay-for-Delay Agreements and Prescription Drug Costs

Posted on 05/13/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Personal Health | Public Policy Institute | Your Life  Brand-name pharmaceutical companies can delay generic competition by paying a generic competitor to hold its competing product off the market for a certain period of time. These “pay-for-delay” agreements benefit both parties: the brand-name manufacturer can continue to charge monopoly prices, and the generic company is compensated for its inaction. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates that pay-for-delay agreements cost American consumers $3.5 billion per year. The Justice Department has challenged these agreements as anti-competitive and the Supreme Court …

Haiku to Mom

Posted on 05/10/2013 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Home & Family | Relationships | Your LifeFor Mother’s Day this year, haiku poetry seemed an appropriate medium to express feelings about our moms: short and sweet; direct, descriptive, creative; gets the point across without embellishment-kind of like our moms, right?!   Here is my haiku for Patricia, my Mom, who surprises and amazes and teaches me every day. Fragile and yet strong Her heart grows for her children Mom is love warrior  – @amygoyer I tweeted out my haiku and put out a call for haiku about mothers via my Twitter and …

The #1 Topic to Talk About After 50 (Even If They Say We Shouldn’t!)

Posted on 05/9/2013 by | Best of Everything After 50 | Comments

Money & Savings | Your LifeOkay, I know that money is one of those topics we’re not supposed to discuss at cocktail parties (along with religion and politics and so on and so forth) … but … we’re not at a cocktail party. We’re in real life. Midlife, in fact. And we need money. If you don’t have a plan… it’s time to think about creating one.  We don’t want to be in our 50s, 60s and beyond without enough money to take care of ourselves. Where to start? First, understand …

Fire in the Wind, Heroes in the City

Posted on 05/8/2013 by | Latino Life | Comments

Relationships | Volunteering | Your LifeIt is raining this morning, May 6, over greater Los Angeles. It began tapping at our rooftop shortly after midnight and was still coming down as night blossomed into a gray and gloomy day. I felt like cheering. The rain, with its accompanying low temperatures and high humidity, meant that a fire that had burned through almost 30,000 acres of brush and timber in the mountains 40 miles west of the city had been beaten. We had come through another …

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