Growing Old Alone - Navigating Retirement and Aging Without the Support of Family

This is an accumulation of instructional materials and advice intended for use in formulating a plan to become an elder alone. While geared towards traditional couples without children (which we are), it is applicable to individuals and to non-traditional couples (LBTG) as well. It is also a good place to leave stories about personal experiences in elding.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Change in Platform

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Please note that I have changed the host of this blog to Wordpress.  The new link is: http://growingoldwithoutchildren.wordpress.com/ Ne...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Really, I'm just not hungry.

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The Ethicist column in the New York Times Magazine recently (November 24, 2013) addressed the ethical implications of the imposition of for...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Strategy: Develop habits that stave off negatives of olderness

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The following link is to an NPR story about a Mediterranean style diet's effects on both physical and mental aging.  This relates back t...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Genworth 2013 Cost of Care Survey

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Executive Summary: https://www.genworth.com/dam/Americas/US/PDFs/Consumer/corporate/131168_031813_Executive%20Su...

POLST

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One major concern about being childless is not having someone watching over your health care.  Things can happen that we may not want to hap...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Our Stuff

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(This is an update to this previous post in order to test e-mail notifications) Why do we have the stuff we have?  What does our stuff say...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Summary of Strategies Thus Far

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I think it is time to do a short summary of the trategies that we have discussed so far.  Most of the 50-plus posts to this blog can be sepa...
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