Older investors leading way in influencing companies they invest in

Older investors leading way in influencing companies they invest in, according to new survey By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 16:50 EDT, 24 July 2021 | Updated: 16:50 EDT, 24 July 2021 Older investors are leading the way in influencing the companies they invest in, according to a new survey by Interactive … Read more

Nearly half of older millennials have at least one chronic health condition

Nearly half of older millennials already have chronic health conditions, a new survey suggests.  Some 44 percent of people born between 1981 and 1988 have already been diagnosed with at least one chronic medical condition, according to the CNBC/Harris poll.  The most common conditions among the group were migraines, depression and asthma, diabetes type 2 … Read more

The Covid toll on older workers: 30% of the 1.3million on furlough fear being SACKED when it ends

The Covid toll on older workers: Over-50s more likely to have had their hours cut while 30% of the 1.3million on furlough fear being SACKED when it comes to an end Some 1.3million people aged 50 and over have been furloughed, ONS found  And three-in-10 say there is odds-on chance they will be sacked afterwards  … Read more

28-year-old woman who is dating a man 48 YEARS older than her says she’s cried about the age gap

A 28-year-old who is dating a man 48 years her senior admits that strangers regularly mistake her for her 76-year-old boyfriend’s caregiver – but she insists that the couple are blissfully happy, despite her fears that he will die in just a few years.  Kelsey Hopeful, from La Jolla, San Diego, met widower Guy BonGiovanni, … Read more

Mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia older than Egypt’s pyramids used for a cattle cult 

Hundreds of stone monuments scattered across northwestern Saudi Arabia may represent the oldest known ritual site on Earth. Researchers studying mustatils, courtyards made from sandstone blocks, date them to about 7,000 years ago, making them millennia older than Stonehenge or the Pyramids at Giza.  Surveying the region by helicopter, the team found over 1,000 mustatils, … Read more

Mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia older than Egypt’s pyramids used for a cattle cult 

Hundreds of stone monuments scattered across northwestern Saudi Arabia may represent the oldest known ritual site on Earth. Researchers studying mustatils, courtyards made from sandstone blocks, date them to about 7,000 years ago, making them millennia older than Stonehenge or the Pyramids at Giza.  Surveying the region by helicopter, the team found over 1,000 mustatils, … Read more

BEN WILKINSON: Help older borrowers get a fair equity release deal

BEN WILKINSON: Older borrowers need help when it comes to switching equity release deals By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 27 April 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 27 April 2021 Equity release is now a better product than it has ever been. The interest rates are at a record low and … Read more

A FIFTH of Americans aged 65 and older have still not gotten their Covid shots, CDC data show

A FIFTH of Americans aged 65 and older have still not gotten their Covid shots, CDC data show: Seniors feel unsafe at mass vaccination sites and struggle to get to inconvenient clinics CDC data show that 80.1% of adults aged 65 and older have received at least one vaccine dose, meaning one-fifth are still not … Read more

Older adults are ‘most likely to make the effort to help others’, study shows

Generation generous: Older people are more likely than younger adults to put in effort to help strangers Researchers found older people were more willing to put in the physical effort When a task required more effort older adults were the more willing help others  ‘Prosocial’ behaviour – intended to benefit others – changes as people get older  … Read more