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Photo by Juan Bacab on UnsplashAt the grocery this week, I glimpsed a magazine cover featuring 80-year-old Cher, and my first thought was how very old she looks (notwithstanding the best plastic surge…

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Photo by Juan Bacab on UnsplashAt the grocery this week, I glimpsed a magazine cover featuring 80-year-old Cher, and my first thought was how very old she looks (notwithstanding the best plastic surgery Money can buy). Cher is definitely Aging. So are Bob Dylan, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, and Dolly Parton. You can see the ravages of aging in their faces.The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Share The EndGameIt makes me sad to see other people aging. Fortunately, I’m not aging at all. I don’t feel …

No. 110/July 8, 2026NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers.Congress Can’t Keep Kicking the Can Down …

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No. 110/July 8, 2026NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers.Congress Can’t Keep Kicking the Can Down the RoadIf Congress does not act to strengthen Social Security’s finances before 2034, benefits to retirees and the disabled will have to be cut about 17% - … Read more

Photo by Anika Mikkelson on UnsplashThe EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Happy Fourth of July!I am vacat…

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Photo by Anika Mikkelson on UnsplashThe EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Happy Fourth of July!I am vacationing this week. Here is a dusty, but perhaps useful post from the archive for your information and Entertainment.When Bob and I walk together around the neighborhood, meeting our minimum daily requirements for steps, we always compare notes on how we’re faring against the slow, inexorable advance of decrepitude. We each do our “organ recitals,” and then Bob asks the tough question: What’…

Photo by Yunus Tug for Unsplash+The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Fresh from a recent adventure in an…

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Photo by Yunus Tug for Unsplash+The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Fresh from a recent adventure in an emergency room, I was intrigued to learn of a trend in emergency medicine that is gathering momentum: the Geriatric Emergency Department.I grew up in an era when “separate but equal” was associated with outdated, politically incorrect thinking. Consequently, I tend to be skeptical of separate anything. In the case of separate emergency rooms for older adults, however, I’m willing to make an…

No. 109/June 24, 2026NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers.More Older Adults Require Care – No Syst…

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No. 109/June 24, 2026NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers.More Older Adults Require Care – No System Provides ItThe first members of the Baby Boom generation turn 80 this year, signaling a sharp increase in the number of older adults needing care. With no… Read more

Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on UnsplashThe EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.If you have not had the pleas…

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Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on UnsplashThe EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.If you have not had the pleasure of visiting an Emergency Room lately, let me assure you that it is nothing like the televised medical dramas. On television, heroic doctors and nurses are the stars, and the patients are minor characters. But when you are the patient, you might think you are the center of the story, and you would be wrong. You’re still a bit player. Forget the suspenseful drama and fast-paced action – you …

Photo by Katie Rosario on UnsplashSome birthdays are cause for celebration. I didn’t consider my 75th birthday to be one of them. Aside from my radical amazement that I’m still walking the planet …

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Photo by Katie Rosario on UnsplashSome birthdays are cause for celebration. I didn’t consider my 75th birthday to be one of them. Aside from my radical amazement that I’m still walking the planet after three-quarters of a century, it didn’t strike me as an occasion worthy of summoning friends and Family to offer toasts, present gag gifts, and deliver snarky birthday cards poking fun at my whitening brow and steadily crumbling infrastructure.The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Share The EndGam…

Photo by Aysegul Aytören on UnsplashThe EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Odds are, you have heard someo…

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Photo by Aysegul Aytören on UnsplashThe EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Odds are, you have heard someone toss off the remark, “You can never be too rich or too thin,” as if it were true. Some people must believe it’s true, to judge from the images of impossibly trim young darlings bombarding us from movies, television, telephones, and Instagram sites. As a former beauty editor observes, “Some of our most visible celebrities have gone from merely thin to gravely gaunt.”In fact, I would ar…

No. 108/May 27 , 2026NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers.Few Retirees WorkAlthough 75% of American …

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No. 108/May 27 , 2026NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers.Few Retirees WorkAlthough 75% of American workers expect to supplement their Retirement savings with paid work, only 27% of retirees actually do, according to EBRI’s 2026 Retirement Confidence Surv… Read more

Photo by Sabine van Straaten on UnsplashNote to Readers: Today, May 23, is my father’s birthday. (It is also my birthday, and my grandfather’s birthday, but that’s another story.) In his honor, …

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Photo by Sabine van Straaten on UnsplashNote to Readers: Today, May 23, is my father’s birthday. (It is also my birthday, and my grandfather’s birthday, but that’s another story.) In his honor, I am reprinting this post from the archive.The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Life dealt my father a pretty lousy hand at birth. As an infant he had asthma so severe that he almost didn’t make it. His parents had to drive him to a hospital in another state to bring the illness under control. When he…

Photo by David Pennington on UnsplashThe EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Many years ago, The Different …

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Photo by David Pennington on UnsplashThe EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Many years ago, The Different Drum, a book on building community by M. Scott Peck of The Road Less Traveled fame, made a huge impression on me. Peck described creating intentional community as a four-step process. In the first, “pseudo community,” people are polite and congenial and avoid saying anything controversial. In the second, “chaos,” conflict rips off the mask of camaraderie and leaves it in tatters. The third…

No. 107/May 13 , 2026NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers.Long-Term Care Drains Middle Class WealthA…

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No. 107/May 13 , 2026NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers.Long-Term Care Drains Middle Class WealthA new report from the Roosevelt Institute, a New York think tank, finds that the costs of long-term care put a significant dent into middle-income household… Read more