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FH Boom Daily Digest – September 16, 2010

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 05:36 AM PDT

Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"

Best Places to Launch a Second Career
Emily Brandon and Kerry Hannon
U.S. News & World Report
September 16, 2010

Overview: "Many seniors are going to be employed past age 65, both for the money and because they enjoy working. But jobs aren't exactly easy to come by right now. The unemployment rate for those 55 and older was 6.9 percent in July, more than double what it was in December 2007."
http://tinyurl.com/3yfq4pk

Early Alzheimer's diagnosis is crucial, yet accurate test elusive
Mary Brophy Marcus
USA Today
September 16, 2010

Overview: "Alzheimer's is a brain disease that causes the memory to slowly erode, eventually ending in death. When symptoms of dementia appear, it's not uncommon for patients to seek out memory centers such as the one at Johns Hopkins to find out what's going on."
http://tinyurl.com/2elr4n3

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