OUR ARCHIVES : May 2009

How to Lay Off Older Workers

I read about a new angle companies are using to lay off older workers (thus reducing both high wages and pesky medical expenses). In a letter in the September, 2008 issue of the AARP Bulletin a woman wrote that her company eliminated her department, which just happened to consist entirely of women age 55 and [...]

Remind Me, Where Did My Memory Go?

I forget when I started worrying about memory loss. But it probably began with a piece of paper on which I had written an important address – the location of a lecture I thought I’d attend on “Memory Loss in the Mature.” I remembered writing down the address because I was afraid I was going [...]