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Mandatory Retirement Flies Out The Window
We boomers are lucky in so many ways. We’ve had people blaze paths ahead of us. We’ve been the beneficiaries. And it’s still happening, as BoomerCafé contributor Marcia Barhydt writes in Mandatory...
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Uncle Sam Wants You To Save For Retirement
(NAPSI)—If you ever feel your finances are too stretched to save for retirement, there could be good news for you. The Retirement Savings Contributions Credit, also known as the Saver’s Credit — a...
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Why Costa Rica remains a top retirement destination
Over the years on BoomerCafé, we’ve run stories by people who’ve found their Eden overseas. This one is a little different: it’s about why! It’s written by Suzan Haskins and Dan Prescher, a married...
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Even in Australia, baby boomers are unprepared for retirement
A whopping 86 percent of Australia’s 5.5 million baby boomers are, in varying degrees, financially under-prepared for retirement, according to recent research, reports MacroBusiness.com. The white...
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Baby Boomers No Longer Excited About Retirement Communities
Time was when retirement meant a move to a community where all your neighbors belonged to the same generation: Old. No more. Times and trends have changed. As baby boomers begin to retire, they’re...
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Boomer retirement planning: 2 do’s, 8 don’ts
Regardless of whether you are a few years from retirement or may retire soon, the lifestyle choices and decisions you make now can have a powerful impact on how you live later. By Gary Foreman,...
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A Northern Italy Lakeside Retirement Paradise
Get into a discussion with a group of baby boomers about the ideal place to retire, and northern Italy may rank high. Americans Jan and Dave Lee found their retirement paradise in the town of Verbania,...
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A new breed of American baby boomers who have reached retirement
There is a new breed of American baby boomers who’ve reached retirement, and when looking to live more economically, have found that the best way is to sell the house and the car and just pack a few...
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With Retirement, One Boomer Becomes an Apprentice Nomad
Baby boomers? An active lifestyle? It doesn’t get much better than this: Mitchell Zetlin’s slightly premature retirement so he could relive the kind of adventure he lived as a young man. He became an...
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If You Have the Right Tools Then Retirement Worries are Over
If you don’t have a foolproof retirement plan, don’t worry: Carrier Slocomb has come up with one for you. Just be flexible. And keep your tongue in your cheek. Otherwise, it’ll never work. Think it’s...
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The Baby Boomer Retirement Crunch is Starting
Everything we’ve said about our generation is true: we might not feel like it, but we are an “aging population.” And, many people age 65 and older are already struggling to live off the amount they...
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New Survey of Boomer Society Finds “Health is Job One”
BoomerCafé contributor Lorie Eber wrote a piece on Huffington Post about a study that took the temperature of the baby boomer generation. We asked Lorie to summarize the study for BoomerCafé. One...
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New Age retirement for the Woodstock Generation
Who better to help us figure out what to do when we retire than a baby boomer who is going through it himself, and writing about it? That is Louis Mack of Boise, Idaho, an admitted “hippy at heart” who...
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Never call a baby boomer ‘old’
If you hear people calling our generation of baby boomers “old,” here’s some ammunition to show them how wrong they are. Marketers choose language carefully for boomer demographic, warns Amy Hoak of...
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Maybe it’s time we baby boomers stepped aside
Our generation has built so much, and changed so much, and controlled so much. But do we know when to stop? Here’s an interesting perspective from a fellow baby boomer, who happens to be the Bishop...
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3 ways Baby Boomers are redefining retirement
The path to retirement is normally considered to be a life-long marathon filled with numerous hurdles that occasionally trip-up participants. The greatest economic slowdown since the Great Depression...
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Poll: Aging baby boomers opt to delay retirement plans
Okay, so you’re a baby boomer at or near retirement age. But are you actually retired? Or even thinking about it? In this piece from Matt Sedensky of The Associated Press, you’ll see that if the...
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10 Best Places To Retire In America In 2013
As we baby boomers give more and more thought to where we will end up living when we really finish working, there are many factors to consider, from cost of living and employment opportunities to...
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Baby boomers generally oppose changing the rules on Social Security
Baby boomers could be affected by the outcome of budget talks underway again in Washington, because in the interest of saving Social Security, those talks could change some of the rules; current...
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11 Must haves in baby boomer homes for a better retirement lifestyle
Baby boomers have either reached the age of retirement or are getting close. And, for many boomers, timely questions arise, including where’s an ideal place to retire and what sort of lifestyle is...
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