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FH Boom Daily Digest – July 14, 2010

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 05:41 AM PDT

Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"

Study: Americans better prepared for retirement
Jay Hancock
Baltimore Sun
July 14, 2010

Overview: "The latest "retirement readiness" study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute got a lot of coverage yesterday, The bad news justifiably got most of the press. Many, many Americans aren't saving enough for retirement. But there was some (relative) good news buried in the report. The portion of boomers and GenXers "at risk" of using up their retirement resources is generally lower than it was in 2003, when EBRI did a previous study."
http://tinyurl.com/36zx6wy

How Alzheimer's gets diagnosed may change
Elizabeth Landau
CNN Blogs: The Chart
July 14, 2010

Overview: "Scientists are seeking to revamp the way that Alzheimer's disease gets diagnosed, for the first time in 25 years. Since the current criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer's were put forth in 1984, they have been in wide use and virtually unchanged, despite scientific advances in the last two decades."
http://tinyurl.com/26xa2om

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