Tag: aging

Much of what I’ve been writing about lately are the dire prospects for elder care when the oldest baby boomers begin reaching their late 80s within a decade. The challenges we will face are exacerbated by the physical design of our communities based on single-family homes scattered around the suburbs. This leads to the isolation…

If not, even an 80- to 90-year life needs rethinking. This post was written by Harry Margolis, a new contributor to the Squared Away Blog. In their book, The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity (published in 2016), the psychologist Lynda Gratton and economist Andrew J. Scott predict that living a century will soon become t…