Why Job Hunters Don’t Find Work An interview with the author of ‘Down and Out in the New Economy’ By Richard Eisenberg, Money & Work Editor November 9, 2017   (Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Next Avenue and Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative on poverty and opportunity.)   An...Read More

Project Renewment by Helen Dennis Project Renewment® is the first retirement model for career women. The term “Renewment,” a word we made up, is a combination of retirement and renewal. It serves as an alternative to “retirement” which still is associated with negative stereotypes and clichés. In contrast, Renewment is positive, suggesting rebirth, choices, vitality,...Read More

THE VALUE OF SOCIALIZATION FOR OLDER ADULTS By Bob Blancato   Over my nearly 40 years of working at the national level on aging policy, I have been most closely involved in the Older Americans Act (OAA) and its three nutrition programs. For the past year, I have had the unique opportunity to focus on...Read More

While author Emily Esfahani Smith was “researching The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters, [she] spoke to many people about what makes their lives meaningful. Four themes came up again and again both in those conversations and in the psychology research on meaning. They are what [she] calls the four pillars of meaning: belonging,...Read More

Being is Meaningful Work By Janet M Hively, PhD For many years, my mantra has been, “Meaningful work, paid or unpaid, through the last breath.” For most of that time, I’ve been thinking about work as purposeful doing. In the last 20 years since I shifted my professional focus on life-work planning from youth to...Read More

Take a moment to read this article with the filmmaker Christine Herbes-Sommers about the documentary that she made called “Coming of Age in an Aging America”. You will be able to view the documentary on public broadcasting’s World channel on Friday, June 30 and Saturday, July 1.Read More