When A Bad Economy Means Working 'Forever'
Increasingly, people are continuing to work past 65. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are working, and among those older than 75, about 7 percent are still on the job. In...
View ArticleAt 85, 'Old-School' Politician Shows No Signs Of Quitting
Increasingly, people are continuing to work past 65. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are working, and among those older than 75, about 7 percent are still on the job. In...
View ArticleFor Elderly Midwife, Delivering Babies Never Gets Old
Increasingly, people are continuing to work past 65. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are working, and among those older than 75, about 7 percent are still on the job. In...
View ArticleA Retired Chicago Cop's Second Act Is At A Barbershop
Increasingly, people are continuing to work past 65. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are working, and among those older than 75, about 7 percent are still on the job. In...
View ArticleA Mother's Fight Against 3 Strikes Law 'A Way of Life'
Since the November election, 240 California prisoners facing potential life sentences have been set free. That's because voters changed California's tough three strikes sentencing law.As NPR reported...
View ArticleAutomatic-Enrollment IRAs Get A Test Run In California
With all of the controversy over entitlement reform, there's one thing both sides can agree on: Social Security alone does not provide enough money for a comfortable retirement. For these workers, the...
View ArticlePlug Pulled On California Nuclear Plant, For Good
Southern California Edison announced Friday morning that it will not restart the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant. The facility has been offline for a year and a half after a leak in a steam...
View ArticleDespite Alzheimer's, Couple Holds Tight To Old Memories
Right now, 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. One of them is 73-year-old Pansy Greene. She's in the early stages of Alzheimer's, and she and her husband, Winston, want...
View ArticleHow To Turn A Red State Blue: California Edition
All this week, NPR is taking a lookat the demographic changes that could reshape the political landscape in Texas over the next decade — and what that could mean for the rest of the country.Democrats...
View ArticleSeniors Flex Creative Muscles In Retirement Arts Colonies
Some famous writers, painters and musicians have done some of their best work in their later years — impressionist Claude Monet, for one.
View ArticleAge Hasn't Stopped This Man From Swimming — And Winning
More than 10,000 athletes are meeting in Cleveland for The National Senior Games. Adults older than 55 — and some older than 90 — are running track, riding bikes, playing basketball and competing in...
View ArticlePickleball, Anyone? Senior Athletes Play New Games And Old
A lot of what you'd see at the National Senior Games looks familiar if you've ever watched the Summer Olympics: There's track and field, basketball and swimming. At the Summer Olympics, however, you...
View ArticleFor Hospital Patients, Observation Status Can Prove Costly
If you're on Medicare and you're in the hospital for a few days, you may think you're an inpatient. The hospital may have other ideas. Increasingly, hospitals are placing older patients on "observation...
View ArticleDelaying Aging May Have A Bigger Payoff Than Fighting Disease
Curing cancer and eliminating heart disease has been the holy grail of medical research. But there could be even greater benefits if aging itself could be delayed, a study finds.This is not quite as...
View ArticleArguments Over Social Security Pit Old Vs. Young
Congress has until Jan. 15 to come up with another spending plan. As they negotiate, one thing you'll hear a lot about is overhauling entitlement programs — particularly Social Security.The program...
View ArticleWhen 'Fixed Income' Means Getting By On Social Security
Social Security has long been thought of as just part of a retirement plan — along with pensions and savings — but it turns out a lot of people depend on it for most of their income.According to the...
View ArticleDespite Early Stages, Alzheimer's Affects Couple's Big Picture
NPR has been following Pansy and Winston Greene, a California couple struggling with an Alzheimer's diagnosis. Three years ago, Pansy learned she had Alzheimer's disease, and over this past summer, the...
View ArticleHomeless Population Shrinks Again, But Unevenly
The number of homeless people in the U.S. has declined for the third straight year. New numbers from the Department of Housing and Urban Development show a large decrease in the number of homeless...
View ArticleWill Seniors Leave Republicans Out To Dry In 2014?
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: Some of the Republican Party's most reliable support has come from voters over the age of 65. But a recent survey suggests this could be changing.NPR's Ina Jaffe went to...
View ArticleSnowstorm Leave Parts Of Midwest, Northeast And Canada Powerless
Christmas is less than merry and far from bright for hundreds of thousands of families from the upper Midwest to the far northeast and into Canada, where ice storms have downed power lines, leaving...
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