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Laboring longer a growing trend for Americans
by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond. While the average retirement age remains 63, that standard may soon be going the way of the…
Author: The Associated Press
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USC Alum First to Receive New Fellowship
As a staffer for the U.S. Senate, Gretchen Alkema will continue to research long-term care for the chronically ill. Original Source By Athan Bezaitis USC Davis School of Gerontology graduate Gretchen Alkema PhD ’07 has been named the first 2008-09 John Heinz/Health and Aging Policy…
Author: USC News
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AONE receives grant to develop elder care resources
Original Source The American Organization of Nurse Executives has received a grant to support the Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing initiative. The $17,000 grant from the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at the New York University College of Nursing will allow AONE to expand…
Author: AHA News
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Bank discriminated on age grounds
Original Source A woman who was refused a loan by the Ulster Bank because she was over 65, has been awarded 2,000 euro. The 70-year-old applied for a loan of 6,000 euro for a car from a branch of the bank in County Kildare in…
Author: BBC News
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Black Caucus highlights disparages and suggests philanthropic solutions
Original Source By Robyn Skinner The community’s health can be gauged by how black men and boys are doing and philanthropic organisations need to understand why there are still barriers to helping them. That’s why last week a group of leaders in their fields met…
Author: The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
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Budding entrepreneurs honoured
By Alex Wright Bermuda’s budding young business people took centre stage at the 2008 Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative of Bermuda (YEIB) BizCamp Prize Giving ceremony. A total of 15 Bermudian entrepreneurs whose business plans were judged the best of the 2008 BizCamps presented their projects at…
Author: The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
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U.S. banking agency brings back retirees to manage crisis
by Geraldine Fabrikant NEW YORK: Before he retired from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. three years ago, Gary Holloway was cleaning up the remnants of the U.S. savings-and-loan crisis two decades earlier. His problems included selling leaky gas stations in Florida and the Thomas Ranch…
Author: International Herald Tribune
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Embracing History to Make History
Clark College, one of five U.S. mentor colleges in the new Plus 50 Initiative, welcomes educational leaders with a visit to Fort Vancouver and a focus on history, tourism and second careers for older workers VANCOUVER, Wash. A visit to Fort Vancouver may result in…
Author: Clark College / Plus 50 Initiative
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Downsizings force baby boomers to reinvent careers
Original Source by BOB MOOS After a decade or more of corporate downsizings, baby boomers are looking upon cradle-to-grave job security with the same nostalgia as Hula Hoops and 45 rpm records. When boomers entered the workforce, many thought they could spend their careers with…
Author: Dallas Morning News
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Coalition Launches New Campaign for Quality, Affordable Health Care for All
Washington, DC- July 8, 2008 Today in Washington, DC and 52 cities across the country, including 38 state capitals, a new national campaign is bringing together millions of Americans to demand quality, affordable health care for all. Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is being…
Author: Health Care for America Now!