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FH Boom Daily Digest - Nov 8, 2010 Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:41 AM PST 1.2 million people want a job but aren't looking Paul Davidson USA TODAY November 8, 2010 Overview: "The portion of over-55 workers in the labor force has risen the past decade from about 32% to 40%. Sara Rix, an AARP policy adviser, partly credits older workers' shrinking 401(k) accounts and higher health care costs. Yet that labor participation rate has held steady or edged down slightly in the recession as many older Americans, like their younger counterparts, grew discouraged and stopped looking for jobs. Workers 55 and older totaled 335,000, or 27.5%, of all discouraged workers in October, the single-largest demographic group." http://tinyurl.com/3yfstx9 Who Cares for the Caregivers? April Rudin The Huffington Post November 6, 2010 12:43 PM Overview: "All caregivers face twin problems: no time, and no plan. Without the time, caregivers find themselves exhausted, bewildered and alone. They have no time to plan. Without a plan, caregivers deplete their resources, put their own health in jeopardy and find themselves trying to do it all, all by themselves." http://tinyurl.com/2dqc7pw Boomers and Mobile Tech: The Good, the Bad, and the Apps Michelle V. Rafter Second Act Blog November 5, 2010 Overview: "Americans -- including boomers -- are racing to use smartphones for internet access even faster than they bought desktop PCs to go online in the 1990s. But people in their mid-40s and older have a love-hate relationship with mobile phones, according to recent research from Webb Media Group, a Washington, D.C., digital strategy consulting firm. They love using phones to connect with family, play games and keep up with news and weather. But they hate the little buttons and confusing user guides, according to the report, which was based on existing data and interviews with baby boomers." http://tinyurl.com/2dshbqk

Part D Is Helping Seniors Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:30 AM PST Guest Blogger Robert Blancato Executive Director of the National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs November 15 marks the beginning of open enrollment for the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Public officials have already taken steps to streamline the program, otherwise known as Medicare Part D, making it that much easier for seniors to sign up and customize coverage to best fit their medical needs.

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