Photo by Centre for Ageing Better on Unsplash The last few months have been increasingly difficult for my 92-year-old mother-in-law. Although she has been able to remain in an independent-living apartment, she finds that she needs outside help regularly. What she really wants is someone for an hour or two in the morning, to help her start her […]
What would you expect a serial entrepreneur to do in retirement? Stop? No way! Carl Landau, a successful creator of niche magazines and an events planning company, had no intention to stop playing with new business ideas in his “unretirement,” so he created a podcast, “I Used to be Somebody,” started a newsletter for Baby […]
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. As a regular reader of The EndGame, you know that the newsletter is all about taking a positive approach to aging. I truly believe that we have more to look […]
No. 37/August 2, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Extreme Heat Especially Dangerous for Elders Anyone who still doubts the reality of climate change after last week’s brutal heat wave is just not paying attention. Extreme heat is […]
Photo by Giulia Squillace on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The words “work” and “retirement,” as we normally use them, are opposites and mutually exclusive: If you work, you’re not retired. If you’re retired, you don’t work. But […]
The groundbreaking works of Margaret Gullette have informed and inspired many present-day thinkers and activists fighting against ageism in American culture. In the second part of this interview, Gullette talks about: What makes ageism a “violent” force in people’s lives The connection between ageism and corporate profits What it means to be a public intellectual […]
Photo by Getty Images Like everyone else I know who has given the matter more than two seconds of thought, I want to spend my final years in my own comfortable home, thank you very much. More than 70% of American adults over 50 and 100% of Canadians over 65 agree. And, on the flip […]
No. 36/ July 19, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. That’s Right, Blame it on the Boomers We should be used to this by now, but it still smarts. Under the headline “The Boomers Are Retiring. See Why That’s […]
Photo by Caroline Roose on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The subject of ultra-processed foods first caught my attention when I was talking to Emily and Mitchell Clionsky about preventing dementia. After debunking most so-called dementia-prevention diets as […]
Margaret Morganroth Gullette is resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She is the author of several groundbreaking books on ageism in America, including by Culture and Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People. Her newest book, to be published next year, is American Eldercide. In this interview, the […]
