Posted on 03/29/2012 by Elizabeth Brown | Brooklyn, NY | Comments
News RoundupsThere are clear differences between men and women when it comes to retirement planning. By integrating the best of both genders’ strategies, you can increase your prospects for a secure retirement.
Posted on 03/12/2012 by Candy Sagon | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments
Bulletin Today | Personal HealthLadies, I have some good news for you. That glass of wine we like to have with dinner at the end of the day? It may help protect us against stroke. A new study that followed nearly 84,000 women for 26 years found that women who drank a glass of wine, beer or a mixed drink daily were less likely to have a stroke, when compared to women didn’t drink at all. The study was published last week in the …
Posted on 02/17/2012 by Jen Martin | Volunteering | Comments
RelationshipsThis is a guest post by AARP Vice President of Multicultural Markets, Edna Kane-Williams. Williams is responsible for the development and execution of strategy relating to growing the association’s African American/Black membership. She previously served as Vice President of Strategy and Communications within the AARP Foundation. Black History month celebrates the perseverance of a determined people. Each year we’re reminded of how African Americans have survived, overcome and excelled despite major obstacles, challenges and injustices. Black women have always figured prominently …
Posted on 06/9/2011 by Hugh Delehanty | My Life, Examined | Comments
RelationshipsYou probably remember the scene. Alvy Singer, played by Woody Allen, is obsessing about the fact that his new girlfriend, Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), doesn’t like to have sex without smoking a joint first. So he goes for a walk and interrogates strangers about their sex lives, including a nebbishy-looking old man. Alvy: With your wife in bed, does she need some kind of artificial stimulation, like, like marijuana? Old man: We use a large vibrating egg. It’s a funny …
Posted on 04/18/2011 by Alejandra Owens | General News | Comments
RelationshipsLast week, The Kitchens Group, a public opinion research firm in Orlando, FL, released new data about Boomer women and their adult children. Reuters reported some of the findings including these choice nuggets: More than half of Baby Boom-generation mothers support adult children financially and 60 percent are the go-to person when their grown kids encounter problems… also… Eighty percent of the women said it was “very accurate” to describe themselves as reliable and dependable, a much stronger response than …
Posted on 03/9/2011 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments
TechnologyYou’ve certainly heard of Rosie the Riveter, the iconic symbol of women who worked in American factories during World War II. But have you heard of the Top Secret Rosies? These Rosies were women who worked as human computers during WWII, and Top Secret Rosies is a recently released documentary that tells the story of these female computers: Computer, at that point, was a job title, not a machine. Long before [they] were businesswomen, community activists, mothers or grandmothers, they …
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