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 […]
Photo by Online Marketing on Unsplash It’s open enrollment season for Medicare through December 7, which means it’s open season on the elderly or those hoping to become so. Last year, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a nonprofit health policy organization, 643,000 Medicare ads ran on television during the nine-week enrollment season, most […]
No. 43/October 25, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Who’s Old: 80 is the new 60 The latest study from Age Wave, The New Age of Aging, finds that the rising tide of older adults has already changed […]
Photo by Carlos Torres on Unsplash Louise Aronson, a geriatrician and author, points out that older adults have been systematically neglected and underserved by the American healthcare system. This neglect is reflected in our healthcare institutions: Pediatricians and pediatric hospitals to treat children, internists and mainstream hospitals treat adults. For older adults we have…nursing homes. The EndGame is […]
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