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...remote setting may look good to you at 70. But how will you feel about it when getting upstairs isn't so easy? "It's hard for us to admit that one day we won't be as healthy," says Elinor Ginzler, director of livable communities at AARP. But it happens; when it does, it's nice to know that your journey into independent retirement came with a return ticket...
...Only the AARP set may recall that movie women used to be on an equal footing with men. Female characters were at the center of some of the top-grossing films in history, from Gone With the Wind to The Sound of Music and Titanic (sort of). Now they mostly ornament the margins. If they're lucky...
...beyond. Within five years, about one-third of the U.S. population will be older than 50, and consumers in that age bracket currently own 65% of the net worth of all households. But as a commercial company entirely focused on aging consumers, Saga remains unique. The U.S.'s AARP, for example, also sells products and has a magazine, but it's a nonprofit group more interested in public policy and political lobbying. So as businesses look for opportunities to court older buyers, they are increasingly turning to Saga for advice. It's got partnerships with a growing number of companies...
...Even in their particulars of age and political preference, the data are peculiar. Liberals and moderates go for Washington (not Clooney?), while conservatives prefer Wayne and, whoa, Hanks (not Mel?). Agewise, Wayne is #1 with the baby boomers; but Roberts wins the hearts of the AARP set, which you might have thought the Duke would...
...true that AARP has seen a windfall, becoming the nation's largest Medigap insurer (providing drug coverage in circumstances that Medicare doesn't cover). In 2004 AARP earned $197 million in insurance-related royalties and an additional $23 million from investment insurance premiums, in both cases mostly from Medigap...