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Want to Maximize Social Security for You and for Your Spouse? Avoid These Seven Common Mistakes

Every so often we think it’s a good idea to revisit a common topic that is both vitally important to retirees and widely misunderstood: Social Security. These benefits constitute the bulk of the income for millions of retirees, yet year after year people make mistakes that end up costing them and their surviving spouses tens … Read more

Don’t Allow FOMO to Rob You of Your Joy in Retirement!

Some time back, we ran an article here on the AgingOptions blog warning our readers to beware of Facebook – it might be ruining their retirement. (You can find that article here.)  Then just a few months later we came across a similar article on the popular financial website MarketWatch. This piece isn’t warning retirees … Read more

Retirement Age: Working til 70 May Not be an “Easy Fix” for Retirement Crisis, Study Reports – so How About 80?

A pair of recent articles on authoritative news websites have provided an interesting perspective on the question of what the “official” retirement age – as determined by Social Security eligibility – ought to be. One article quotes a study showing that the common recommendation to work until age 70 might not be possible for a … Read more

“Bored Boomers” Are Beginning to Ask, “Is Today’s Retirement Model Irrelevant?”

The so-called modern view of retirement is pretty straightforward. You start your work life with a series of jobs in your late teens and early twenties. Eventually you settle into your “life’s work” and follow that journey for four decades or so, saving money along the way. Sometime in your late sixties, certainly by age … Read more

Can Adult Kids Be Held Legally Responsible for Parental Support? In Some Countries – and Some States – the Answer is Yes

Here at AgingOptions, we feel we’ve seen it all when it comes to relationships between aging parents and adult children. In some cases, these relationships are wonderful models of love, respect and support; in other families, plagued by bitterness and old wounds, parents and kids are barely on speaking terms or are openly antagonistic toward … Read more

Before Signing That Divorce Agreement, Make Sure Your Rights to Retirement Savings Will Be Protected

Several months ago we were reading financial columnist Michelle Singletary’s column in the Washington Post when something in the article really grabbed our attention – a reader comment buried far down in the column that set off warning bells. We felt this information needed to be shared once again with our AgingOptions blog readers. Divorce … Read more

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