February 8, 2021

Listen to Ron's Interview with Lesa Kingsbury and Ken Taub Yoga and Meditation: Exploring Two Ancient Practices —Together While the practices of yoga and meditation have been around for thousands ...READ MORE

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45 Forward – Episode 5
February 1, 2021

Listen to Ron's Interview with Ronald Fatoullah Getting Your Legal Affairs in Order -- Before You Face a Crisis If living through the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that ...READ MORE

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45 Forward – Episode 4
January 25, 2021

Listen to Ron's Interview with Dr. Andrea Gould-MarksYou Gotta Have Friends — All the Way Through LifeWe celebrate friendship as one of the true joys—and necessities—of life, from our childhood ...READ MORE

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45 Forward – Episode 3
January 18, 2021

Listen to Ron's Interview with Scott Passeser“The Art of ‘Stealth’ Job-hunting in Your Mid-Life  Years”As the economy continues to struggle under the weight of the raging coronavirus, host Ron Roel ...READ MORE

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45 Forward – Episode 2

BEING PREPARED TAKES MORE TIME THAN YOU THINK. A LOT MORE. Scott PasseserLike many of us, you may be in a job-hunting mode these days. So imagine you wake up ...READ MORE

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Don’t Go on that Job Interview…Yet

​WITH UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT THESE DAYS, JOB HUNTING HAS GOTTEN MUCH MORE DIFFICULTScott Passeser​Originally published as a column in Long Island Business News November 20-26, 2020  There are more candidates ...READ MORE

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Attention Job Hunters: You’re Not Quite Done!
January 11, 2021

When we left 2020 behind, many of us topped off a rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” with  “Good riddance!” It was a year of living dangerously, with the constant threat ...READ MORE

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Flight 2021
January 11, 2021

Listen to Ron's Interview with Kathleen Otte“Freedom of Choice: New Paths to Aging Well in our Communities”Featured Guest: Kathleen OtteContact: Kathleen.otte@acl.hhs.govKathleen Otte is the Senior Regional Administrator for the U.S. ...READ MORE

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45 Forward – Episode 1
October 15, 2017

A COMMITMENT TO TENNIS EXCELLENCE, LATER IN LIFE. MUCH LATER. MJ Hanley-Goff After spending most of four decades as a magazine editor –the last seven years as editor of The ...READ MORE

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Net Gain

WHY EVERY PARENT SHOULD TAKE A ONE-ON-ONE TRIP WITH THEIR TEENAGER—REALLY! MJ Hanley-Goff Before my daughter, Emily, and I took a trip to Paris, I made her watch the iconic ...READ MORE

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We’ll Always Have Paris. And that Safari.

HOW TO GIVE ADVICE TO YOUR ADULT CHILDREN Curtis Seltzer The best way to give advice to my 31-year-old daughter, I’ve discovered, is to arrange for her to give advice ...READ MORE

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Breaching the ‘Beautiful Wall’
November 28, 2016

WHEN YOUR HEART IS YOUR MAP MJ Hanley-Goff I remember it well. I was driving along the Cross-Bronx Expressway on a three-hour ride back to my Hudson Valley home from ...READ MORE

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So Where Would Home Be Now?
November 19, 2016

AN OLD FRIEND REMAINS INTREPID–AND BECOMES SEMI-FAMOUS ALONG THE WAY A few months ago, I sat down for a cup of coffee with an old friend, Hudson Cooper–a high school ...READ MORE

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Agent Cooper
November 14, 2016

HERE’S WHAT YOU GET (MAYBE) WHEN YOU GO LOCO FOR LUXURY James Durston In a cage, in a forest, in the center of Bali, Indonesia, something resembling a cat-raccoon hybrid ...READ MORE

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That’s Ridiculuxe!
October 11, 2016

MAKING THE BEST OF BEING SLEEPLESS IN THE SUBURBS Ken Taub I am a creative sleeper. I do not go to bed at 11:30 and wake up at 7 in ...READ MORE

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Oh Yeah. The Universe.
October 4, 2016

BIKING ACROSS COUNTRY AT 16. THEN AT 60. AND 65. Stephen Jones When I was 16, I took a bike trip across the country, riding from New Jersey to San ...READ MORE

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Recycling Youth
August 17, 2016

It began as a breezy summer read. A couple of months ago, I picked up The Boys in the Boat, the best-selling book by Daniel James Brown, a true account ...READ MORE

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Getting There. Together.
August 6, 2016

FINDING CALM WITHIN AMERICA’S DEMOGRAPHIC STORM Ken Taub I know, I know. Who listens? Besides, we are shouting at each other. We are anxious, jittery, uncertain. We are more than ...READ MORE

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Those Other People

MAKING GRAY THE NEW GREEN Ken Dychtwald EACH DAY, ANOTHER 10,000 BABY BOOMERS TURN 65. BORN IN 1950, I’M A MEMBER OF THIS COHORT. As we migrate into elderhood, our ...READ MORE

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Do Boomers Have the Guts—and Wisdom— To Course-Correct Our Nation?

A few weekends ago, I spent an evening sitting at the periphery of a rock-and-rollicking conversation among five women. They’re what I call my wife’s “Big Chill Group,” friends who ...READ MORE

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All These Years Later, Friendship Still Rocks

There’s no question that life-long friendships are jewels to be treasured, but some time ago, I was treated to a fresh perspective on the friend phenomenon. While in Manhattan one ...READ MORE

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Surprise! Boomers and Millenials Can Be Fast Friends

LIVING OVERSEAS HAS ITS ESCAPADES, PERKS & CHALLENGES James Durston “If everyone knew how great being an expat was, there’d be no one left at home.” Those are the words ...READ MORE

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Turning the Everyday Rut into an Adventure Every Day
June 14, 2016

Scott Wilson My wife Michelle loves Mary Chapin Carpenter. Last year, we put one of her albums in my car’s CD player and listened to some of it. It didn’t ...READ MORE

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Listening, Finally
April 9, 2016

THE FINE ART OF RE-INVENTION, FROM AGE 40 TO 90 Ron Roel Most everyone entering the middle ages has heard the decennial trope, “Fifty is the new forty,” which, naturally, ...READ MORE

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MY COUSIN MANNY

EVERY LIFE HAS A MEMOIR WORTH TELLING Curtis Seltzer I discovered late in life that everyone has a story that’s worth telling–because every story has something worth knowing. Every life ...READ MORE

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So What’s Your Story?

This fall I joined the in-transition tribe of aging American parents commonly known as empty nesters. My fraternal twin sons went off in college, a two-hour plane ride away—not exactly ...READ MORE

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Like a Piñata, an Empty Nest is Full of Surprises

HOW DO WE BEAT THE DRIVE TO DIVIDE? Ron Roel GROWING UP, I ALWAYS THOUGHT OF MYSELF AS A “DOG PERSON.” Early on, my mother turned down many pleas to ...READ MORE

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Fighting Like Dats and Cogs
March 3, 2015

UNCOVERING A DEEP-SEATED AMBITION WHILE DIGGING A TRENCH.WELL, SORT OF. Curtis Seltzer When my mother gave 14-year-old me my daily dose of advice that would help me in the future, ...READ MORE

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Life’s a Ditch
November 12, 2014

WILL POWER, PAIN AND SECOND CHANCES Lenny Mintz Why am I standing here on a cold rainy day watching young athletes run? I gave this up long ago, but here ...READ MORE

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The Long Race

TURNING INADVERTENT ACTIVISM INTOAN UPDATED DOWNTOWN David Sabatino I came to community organizing inadvertently. As a young man, I was more aware than most people about what was going on ...READ MORE

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From Coffeehouse to New, Improved Community

HOW THE GREATER PHOENIX AGE-FRIENDLY NETWORKEXPANDS RESOURCES, TRAINING & SHARING Amy St. Peter During the Great Recession a few years ago, the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) came to a ...READ MORE

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Making the Most of our ‘Longevity Bonus’
August 15, 2014

HOW SMALL TASKS  BECOME  BIG  DOINGS Curtis Seltzer You do a lot of tending on a farm. “Tend” in both English and other European languages is rooted in words that ...READ MORE

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The Tao of Tending

THE SPECIAL STRENGTH TO PLACE AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY ON YOUR SHOULDERS Ken Taub How do we measure a healthy heart?  By how generously it pumps. People are known to help ...READ MORE

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His Neighbors’ Keeper

RESPECT DIVERSITY, AND YOUR PROGRAMS WILL DELIVER UNITY Michael I. Udine When I came to Parkland  17 years ago, this small Floridian city was known as a great place to ...READ MORE

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Creating a Community for All Ages

WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU CAN’T DO WHAT YOU’VE ALWAYS DONE? Curtis Seltzer Getting old requires adapting to changed circumstances. I dislike this as much as anyone, both the ...READ MORE

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The Frisbee King Faces the Future

IS PLANNING TO AGE 100 ENOUGH? Ronald W. Rogé SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, I was sitting in my dentist’s waiting room and spotted the cover of a National Geographic magazine, which ...READ MORE

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The Longevity Challenge

WHEN MENTORING IS PART OF LIFE’S JOB DESCRIPTION Terri Connett MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE THE FERTILITY DRUGS LEFT ME STILL BARREN. Or it might stem from my three siblings and me ...READ MORE

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It Takes A Village, People

KEEPING A BUSINESS THRIVING THROUGH SEVERAL GENERATIONS Patricia Galteri and Jayson J.R. Choi It’s hard enough running a family business—keeping family members from overreaching or competing, duplicating tasks, or entertaining ...READ MORE

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Devising a Smart Succession Plan—and Avoiding a Family Civil War
February 14, 2014

ON FLOWERS, FRIENDS & FAREWELLS Roberta Israeloff ABBY AND I MET IN A GENTLE YOGA CLASS. ” ’Gentle’ as in ’geriatric,’ ” she said, as we waited on our mats ...READ MORE

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In Search of Abby
January 14, 2014

IMMORTALITY, SHAKESPEARE AND YOUR GRANDMOTHER Ken Taub WHEN THE DOORBELL RANG, I was surprised.  I wasn’t expecting anyone — surely not the Jehovah’s Witnesses. We chatted very briefly, exchanging pleasantries, ...READ MORE

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On Not Dying
December 14, 2013

FROM CRICKET SONG TO NATIVE HYMNS Judy Light Ayyildiz FROM MY ROOM IN ISTANBUL, I LONGED FOR MY BALCONY IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA. It was then, through ...READ MORE

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The Chorus

A TALE OF MODERN-DAY HOMESTEADING Ron Roel AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR, MY FATHER, ED ROEL, WAS LIVING WITH HIS PARENTS IN BROOKLYN, RAISING A YOUNG FAMILY WITH HIS WIFE, ...READ MORE

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Let Us Now Praise Pioneers

MY 60-YEAR QUEST TO BECOME A NOVELIST Patricia King AS YOU READ THIS, YOU WILL HAVE A HARD TIME FIGURING OUT IF I AM BRAGGING OR COMPLAINING. I will tell ...READ MORE

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When Your Heart Is in Your Dream

THE YOUTH CULTURE GETS SOME GRAY, BUT STILL WANTS TO DO IT ITS WAY Ron Roel & Ken Taub MICK JAGGER JUST TURNED 70.  Not too long ago, we would ...READ MORE

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Is Yolder a Boulder, Or a Revolutionary Way to Age?

A JOURNEY INTO THE DEVIL’S THROAT Paula Ann Murphy OUR SHIP ARRIVED EARLY as the fog rose in Paranagua, Brazil.  After hiking in the mist, we rode to the Curituba ...READ MORE

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The Power of Iguassu Falls

TOURISM MEETS THE ‘AGE OF ENGAGEMENT’ Bruce Frankel EVERYWHERE WE TURN TODAY, people are looking for more “engagement” in their lives—especially retirement-resistant baby boomers, who always seem on a restless ...READ MORE

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‘Enriched Travel’: Going Beyond the Landmarks

ADOPTING A SECOND DOG, AND BEING THE ONE RESCUED Ken Taub FOR THE SAKE OF LOOKING OR ACTING YOUNGER, we adults tend to do a lot of strange things:  eye ...READ MORE

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The Four-Legged Fountain of Youth

A PARABLE FOR PEOPLE OUR AGE–AND THESE TIMES Ronald W. Rogé REMEMBER THE MOVIE, “The French Connection”?  It was on TV the other day and I noticed it came out ...READ MORE

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What the Fisherman Taught the Banker