The 5 Good Boomer Reads for the week of August 23, 2018
For August 23, 2018, we have 5 good Boomer reads covering every aspect of Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
- How To Fix A Slow Metabolism – BoomerFitness.com
- Don’t Retire Start A Micro Business
- Opinion: Boomers and upper-middle class to America: Don’t blame us for economy’s problems
- Happy Together: lonely baby boomers turn to co-housing
- My Journey Into Medicare: Part II
How To Fix A Slow Metabolism – BoomerFitness.com
Brian Stecker started Boomer Fitness with a passion to bring greater fitness to Baby Boomers and help those Boomers pass that fitness culture along to their children and grandchildren.
Brian has over 10 years experience and used his knowledge, skills and abilities to develop a total exercise curriculum for the Baby Boomer generation. But he is located in Vancouver, Washington.
So how do you benefit from Brian’s expertise?
Check out Brian’s YouTube channel where his passion is clearly present as his dedication and zeal has produced a balanced program of fitness for a whole generation. Brian draws on his thousands of hours of personal training to present a healthy plan for fitness, nutrition and a positive mental mind set to carry a whole generation into a positive and healthy future.
Use Brian’s tips to find yourself a local trainer, then thank Brian by subscribing to his video and his newsletter and stay with your fitness program.
Don’t Retire Start A Micro Business
David Howell writes in Forbes last week that in both the U.S. and U.K., Baby Boomers are retiring to small businesses based on their dreams–and they’re doing this at a rate that outpaces the heralded Millennial entrepreneur.
In their report Gig Economy Workers and the Future of Retirement, Betterment found that 16% of Americans plan to take a gig job in their retirement.
This is the approach many over 60s are taking as they often top surveys of new business owners. Indeed, the concept of the olderpreneur is fast becoming the norm, outstripping the oft-mentioned Millennial group, as the most entrepreneurial.
The IoD (Institute of Directors) concluded In the Age of the Older Entrepreneur that
“Labour markets are changing. Increasingly sophisticated (and ever cheaper) consumer technologies are opening up routes into work for many who have traditionally felt locked out of the jobs landscape. For many older people in particular, this trend has the potential to facilitate flexible access to work as they transition out of full-time jobs and into retirement.”
Opinion: Boomers and Upper-Middle Class to America: Don’t Blame Us for Economy’s Problems
Howard Gold writes in MarketWatch that wealth inequality in the U.S. has more to do with corporate interests and the ultra-rich.
Gold supports this proposition by reviewing the current rend of books and media blaming Boomers for everything;
“It’s become received wisdom: Baby boomers have ruined America by spending all the wealth and leaving their children nothing but debt. And the upper-middle class has hogged all the opportunities and rolled up the drawbridge behind them.”
Then he dismantles a bunch of that hooey using the results of university and government studies showing that the problems are much deeper and mostly independent of the Baby Boomer generation.
Happy Together: Lonely Baby Boomers Turn to Co-Housing
According to The Guardian, Baby Boomers are creating new living arrangements offering a greater sense of community.
Specifically, writer Anna Leach looks at the growing co-housing trend in her Bay Area location, across the U.S. where 165 co-housing communities are flourishing, and around the world. Communal gardens, group meals, and smaller homes are part of the mix, but the surprising aspect is that the ages are not limited to retirees–children are part of the mix in many co-housing communities.
So, I guess we do miss the children after all.
My Journey Into Medicare: Part II
A few weeks back I promised to report an my transition to Medicare. My health insurance agent set me up with the link to the Medicare sign-up page and a nifty single sheet form to fill-in about my specific needs.
The online sign-up took about 5 minutes. I was mostly concerned about mistakenly clicking on the Social Security sign-up, but it was actually easy to avoid. My Social Security doesn’t reach 100% payout for another year and I am delaying gratification until I reach 70, which will eventually make my much-younger wife very happy since I’m less bothersome while working and will leave her a better spousal benefit.
Here’s her instructions, they worked perfectly for me.
To apply for Medicare A&B see below:
- Go to: www.ssa.gov
- Click on the link “retirement”
- Click on “Apply for Retirement Benefits”
- Click on “Start a new application”
Complete the application. You are applying for part A, it will ask you if you want part “B” and you will need to say “yes”. It will ask you if you would like Social Security Income, this is voluntary.
Once the application is complete, you should have your Medicare ID card in 3-4 weeks via the mail, I got my card in just 2 weeks. Looks like (ex-Googler) Matt Cutts, acting-Administrator, and the U.S. Digital Service are getting government services UX nicely cleaned up.
The insurance agent also scheduled a meeting with me to discuss options, which takes place next week. I’ll have more to report after the meeting.
And that wraps our 5 Good Boomer Reads August 23, 2018.
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