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Aging With Grace 55+
Aging With Grace 55+™ is a 45-minute interview magazine format featuring guests providing useful tips for taking care of self, aging family members and those who priovide care for elders. Some of our interviewed guests are also doing what seniors only dream about or never thought possible. Enjoy and share (or even perhaps even emulate) their stories on this lifestyle podcast. Rotating magazine style segments are designed to create an on-line community for living well and continuing to engage in society. Candidly this series is produced as an attack on rampant Ageism. Featured topics have included caregiving for aging parents, protecting finances in retirement and many more.
This is the fourth pocast series produced by host Dale Josey who has been blessed with renewed energy in his retirement with a purpose. For more information visit AWG55.com.
Aging With Grace 55+
Finding Your Encore Career Featuring Harriet Edleson
Four years ago, during the pandemic, older workers began exiting the workforce in large numbers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that more individuals aged 65 and older left the workforce in 2020 than any year since 1948, when the U.S. started tracking the data.
Many of those who left during the early part of the pandemic have returned to work since then; more than half, according to a paper by T. Rowe Price Thought Leadership Director Judith Ward, a Certified Financial Planner. Of the 2.4 million additional people who retired in 2020, 1.5 million had "unretired" by March 2022. These figures indicate a trend of older workers retiring and subsequently deciding to return to work for various reasons, including seeking income or mental stimulation.
In this episode Harriet Edleson shares insights from her article “Finding Your Encore Career” published earlier this year in the online newsletter Next Avenue, "featuring news, advice, information, conversations and stories curated for people over 50”. Her article includes retirees, some aged 73, discussing strategies for how and why they returned to the workforce. Edleson also authored the book “12 Ways to Retire on Less: Planning an Affordable Future”. She is a former staff writer, editor, and producer for AARP, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Kiplinger's Retirement Report.