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Women Face Tough Challenges in Retirement … But Can Overcome Them!

Posted on 04/30/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Public Policy Institute | WorkThe writer Oscar Wilde said “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” This is a great insight into how vital money can be at older ages — when we have a much more difficult time earning money or just can no longer work. A recent report from AARP’s Public Policy Institute, An Uphill Climb: Women Face Greater Obstacles to Retirement Security, highlights …

During American Heart Month, NIH Offers Heart Healthy Advice

Posted on 02/27/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Personal Health The following is a guest post by Chhanda Dutta, Ph.D., Chief, Clinical Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH and Janet M. de Jesus, M.S., R.D., Nutritionist, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH During February, American Heart Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) urges you to take action to keep your heart healthy. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in the United States. About 1 in 8 women aged 45-64 has heart disease, …

Betty Friedan: A Pioneer of Modern Feminism

Posted on 02/19/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Legacy | Relationships | WorkFifty years ago this month, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan was published. Even the husband she divorced conceded that Betty “almost single-handedly changed the course of human history. It took a driven, super-aggressive, egocentric, almost lunatic dynamo to rock the world the way she did.” Yes, that was Betty.  And that was The Book that launched the modern women’s movement. In her treatise, Betty described what she called “the problem that has no name”:  the feelings of isolation, boredom …

Middle-Aged Women Have Most Empathy

Posted on 02/1/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthLooking for someone to really listen and care? Talk to a woman in her 50s. A new University of Michigan study of more than 75,000 adults, ages 18 to 90, found that late-middle-aged women were the most empathetic — more so than either men the same age or anyone (of either gender) older or younger. Overall, middle-aged adults were more empathetic — meaning more likely to react emotionally to the experiences of others and to understand things from another person’s …

Women Power: The Key to Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff

Posted on 12/13/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsWhat would it take to keep the country from heading over the fiscal cliff? More women running the show! That seems to be the consensus of a bipartisan group of women U.S. Senators, interviewed earlier this week by ABC World News Anchor Diane Sawyer. “I think if we were in charge of the Senate and of the Administration that we would have a budget deal by now,” Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine told Sawyer, as 18 of her colleagues …

Despite Progress, Heart Disease Remains the #1 Killer of Women

Posted on 10/12/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Personal HealthThe following is a guest post from The Heart Truth®, a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.   A decade ago, research revealed a fatal misconception:  American women believed that heart disease was a man’s disease.  At that time, heart disease was the leading cause of death in the United States, causing 1 in 3 deaths in women. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute launched The Heart Truth® campaign in September …

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