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Your Encore Career: Start at GO
Just beginning your search for an encore career? Encore.org has just
created a Get Started Guide which offers expert advice, helpful books
and Web sites, tips and success stories.
Posted: January 20, 2010
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| Caring Collaborative |
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Caring Collaborative 2010 Update
The TTN Caring Collaborative has come to the “official” end of its two year demonstration project. And what a year it has been! Thanks to the participation of more than 250 NYC members, TTN has demonstrated the power and potential of informal communities to provide strategic, health focused care for one another.
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| Diversity |
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A Dreary Decade's Long Shadow
"Two principal forces are recasting America's complexion. One is making
the U.S. grayer: the aging of the Baby Boomers, who in coming years
will vastly increase the over-65 share of the population. The second is
making America less white."
Posted: January 26, 2010
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Experts Expose Health Reform Gaps for Ethnic Elders
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, aging baby boomers will almost double the country’s 65-plus population by 2030. While the number of white seniors will grow in that time by about 70 percent, African-American elders will increase by double that percentage, and older Hispanics will rise by more than 250 percent.
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A Testament to Life
When your life is over, what will you leave behind?
A will, of course. We all recognize the importance of a legal document that distributes our assets—stocks, bonds, property, and other material goods—to our beneficiaries. But you have other assets, priceless ones that are never listed in a will. They are your values, your wisdom, your experiences. You can bequeath these as well, by writing an ethical will.
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| Links We Like |
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Woman Around Town
A great website for, about and written by women, and mainly focused on the New York area: www.womanaroundtown.com.
February 2009: And be sure to check out feature article When Media Frenzy Descends on Your Building, written by TTN member Eleanor Foa Dienstag.
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One Day University
One Day University brings together award-winning professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and other top-tier schools to create the most stimulating day of college available anywhere.
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Going Gray "Golden Girls" Style
I recognize I -- as well as my fellow Gen X’ers -- will at some point
have to face living in old age. We can’t avoid it so why not embrace
it?
Posted: January 12, 2010
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Holidays and Stress
As the song goes, Christmastime is here. But along with the happiness and cheer, it brings a boatload of stress.
Posted: 12/22/09
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| Travel |
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Morocco Bound!
Learn about a special “Just for Women” tour to Morocco. TTN members across the country are invited to participate.
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Planning Your Next Vacation? Contact TTN's Travel Partner, Carefree Vacations
From Executive Director Betsy Werley
Do you want to simplify your travel planning, get great prices and make sure there's someone to help if your plans go awry? Those are all good reasons to contact TTN's travel partner Carefree Vacations when you're thinking about your next trip.
And one more - Carefree makes a contribution to TTN for every travel package and cruise that members book.
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| Volunteering |
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Boomers Biggest Givers
More than half of baby boomers give time and money to charitable causes, mostly to support Alzheimer's disease, social services, the environment and the military, according to a survey by The Hartford.
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