Photo by Curated Lifestyle for Unsplash+ The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Everyone who has dealt up close and personal with the American healthcare system has stories. This is ours. My mother-in-law is 94 years old, and for 93 of […]
Photo by Joseph Corl on Unsplash You may be forgiven for believing in the inevitability of dementia in your future. News media have done well what they do best, which is cranking the anxiety volume up to 11. With predictable results: In the United Kingdom, a study last year by the Alzheimer’s Society found that […]
No. 81/May 7, 2025 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. May Campaign Advances Case for Older Workers May is Older Americans Month, and Encore Roadmap has launched Flip the Script, an all-volunteer grassroots campaign to spotlight the power of […]
Image by TSD Studio for Unsplash+ The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. At times I feel that whatever I am going through, I am going through it alone. If you feel that way sometimes, perhaps you will be encouraged to […]
Photo by Getty Images for Unsplash+ The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Early in his writing career, Kurt Vonnegut was surprised and annoyed to find his stories relegated by reviewers to “the drawer labeled ‘science fiction.’ “ He wrote, “I […]
No. 80/April 23, 2025 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. We Retain the Capacity to Change Do we become “set in our ways” as we age? Not necessarily. We are not who we used to be, nor who we […]
Illustration by Getty Images for Unsplash+ The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The industry that brought you the 55+ senior housing development and the Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) is having its problems. That may be to our advantage. Demography […]
Photo by Sophia Simoes on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Fresh news keeps blasting out from Washington at a fast and furious clip. Liberals are wringing their hands, conservatives are clapping theirs, and I have been doing my […]
No. 79/April 9, 2025 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. What Should We Call Ourselves? “We need new words and a refreshed vocabulary for this emerging era of longevity,” says writer Avivah Wittenberg-Cox in a thoughtful essay about the […]
Photo by Oleg Ivanov for Unsplash+ The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. If you are carrying over credit card debt from month to month, take it as a warning sign: Your personal finances are sailing rough seas and in danger […]
