Upcoming Lunch Event - New England 50+ Housing Council

Northland Residential Experts Show How To “Upgrade Your Sales!”
    

Jack Dawley and Susan DiLorenzo of Northland Residential Corp. will join design professional Mark Haddad of Haddad Hakkanson to kick off the 2008 program year with a lunch event on May 1. With the market continuing to challenge New England builders and developers, Dawley and his team [...]

Aging (Life) is Expensive, Should We Be Teaching Financial Literacy in School?

The subprime mortage meltdown has illustrated once again how ill prepared adults are to navigate an increasingly complex financial marketplace.  Life is expensive, and it gets really expensive when you think about living in a continuing care retirement community or having services delivered to your home.
Makes me wonder . . . should we be teaching financial [...]

Upcoming Event - Can’t Remember What I Forgot: Good News in Memory Research

Date:              Monday  Evening, May 12, 2008
 
Speaker:        Sue Halpren, PhD, Journalist and Author                 
 
Moderator:    Eric Mann – Vice President, Posit Science
 
Location:       Wilson Sonsini – 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto   
Time:              6:00PM Registration, Hors d’oeuvres and Networking
                        7:00PM Presentation and Panel Discussion
 
Registration in advance: http://www.mitcnc.org/Events_Single.asp?eventID=1412
 
$15.00 in advance on the website,  $20.00 [...]

All I Really Need To Know I Could Learn From Southwest Airlines

     Since it became public a few weeks ago that Southwest had missed inspections, I’ve flown a number of times on their airline.  The gates are teeming and the center seats are usually filled.
     What accounts for this seemingly illogical popularity?  Certainly, some of that travel was booked before the press got the story.  Some [...]

Upcoming Event - Silvers Summit

Currently there are about 78 million boomers in the US (450 million worldwide) — born between 1946 and 1964 – hitting their peak earning and spending.  One of the main catalysts is technology. Whether they’re playing brain games for fun, monitoring their homes, visiting the grandkids via video conferencing, or navigating the back roads in [...]

Just the facts: Older women rule the world!

women-rule-the-world1 Want to see some interesting facts? Just click on the PowerPoint link above. If you didn’t know it, senior women control all the money, particularly women 65+. What you probably didn’t know is how many of them will live alone.
I have my thoughts on what this means to society but I’d be interested in [...]

Upcoming events

2008 Building for Boomers & Beyond: 50+ Housing Symposium
Conference: May 19-21, 2008
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
Topic: “The Marriage of Resort Active-Adult Communities & Service-Enriched Housing”
For more info: http://www.nahb.org/conference_details.aspx?conferenceID=60§ionID=121   
 
JWT Boom, LiveWire: The Summit, Reaching the 40+ Consumer
(formerly Beyond The Numbers)
Conference: June 2 - 3, 2008
Topic: “ Reaching the 40+ Consumer”
For more info: [...]

An Insight from the Boomer Summitt

Look forward to being a periodic contributor at Mature Market Experts, although I’m not very mature and to label myself an expert is probably a bigger stretch than Manute Bol’s wing span. 
In my daily life, I’m vice president of communcications and public affairs at Ecumen, which is one of the country’s largest non-profit senior housing, [...]

At risk, our freedom . . . and our donuts

I recently stumbled upon a wonderful AP story, “Seniors balk at ban on free doughnuts.” Now, I was drawn to this story on several angles:
 
1.                 I love sweets
2.                 I love debates on our individual freedoms
3.                 I love issues pertaining to the 50+ market
 
At what point do we lose our individual ability to choose what’s right [...]