No. 46/Dec. 20, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Equity Capital Wins, Assisted Living Residents and Staff Lose According to an investigation published Sunday by The Washington Post, investors have been buying assisted-living properties, putting pre… Read more
Photo by Hubert Neufeld on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Financially, my wife and I think we’re sitting pretty right now. We each get a monthly Social Security check, and she has a nice retirement fund thanks to 35 years of […]
Photo by Chris Charles on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This week I attended my first Death Café. If that statement disturbs you, then you have just illustrated why Death Cafés are needed. Death is not a familiar presence in the […]
No. 45/Dec. 6, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Your Call Is Very Important To Us If you happen to call the Social Security Administration’s toll-free line with questions or concerns, you can expect to be on hold […]
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. “There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote. Of course, Fitzgerald only lived to be 44. Had he devoted less time to pickling his liver and […]
Photo by Torsten Dederichs on Unsplash By the end of second grade, it was an even bet that I was headed down the road to delinquency. For starters, I was caught with a knife on the playground (actually, a popsicle stick sharpened to a point on the sidewalk, which I had brought for show and tell). My second […]
No. 44/Nov. 22, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Dr. Ruth vs. the Loneliness Epidemic If you thought you had heard the last of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the fearless sex therapist who spoke openly in the 80s about […]
Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Several weeks ago the New York Times published an opinion piece with this heart-stopping headline: “For the Good of the Country, Older Americans Should Work More and Take […]
Photo by Aakash Dhage on Unsplash I want to let you know that I won’t be providing fresh posts this week or next, as my wife and I are taking a two-week vacation. We’re driving from Baltimore to a succession of marvelous Southeastern cities where it will be our great pleasure to visit with friends […]
Gary Allen Foster, an executive recruiter and career transitions coach, thinks traditional retirement is a bad idea. At 80, he considers himself semi-retired, working as much as he wants and keeping his mind sharp and his body fit. In this interview he discusses his thoughts on a variety of topics related to the last stage […]
