The U.S. Small Business Administration and AARP are partnering to help entrepreneurs older than age 50 start their own small business. The alliance between the two organizations will provide counseling and training to the aspiring entrepreneurs. The SBA training, mentors and counselors will be available online and the SBA and AARP expect to train 100,000 [...] [...]
Editor’s note: This story is part of an occasional series about the business of aging. Baby boomers will change the look of Colorado Springs’ workforce during the next five years, and that will present a host of challenges for human resource professionals. Either the workforce will look grayer as boomers opt to stay in their [...] [...]
El Paso County is ahead of other counties when it comes to planning for the silver tsunami, according to national experts who study the issue. Local community leaders are already rallying around the topic of aging trying to plan for the estimated 82,000 baby boomers, those over age 65, who will live in El Paso [...] [...]
The Colorado Springs Innovations for Aging Collaborative is preparing to meet the baby boomer wave that’s about to wash over El Paso County. The collaborative is hosting a workshop April 21 at Colorado College’s Worner Campus Center. The objective of the meeting is to identify a project related to aging that the community can rally [...] [...]
Local economist Tucker Hart Adams recently wrote, “If you live long enough, you will get old.” [...]
Baby boomers are expressing anxieties about losing their driving freedom and mobility. In a survey by American Automobile Association, nearly half of senior drivers said they are worried about losing their freedom when it’s time to give up the car keys. Every day, between 7,000 and 10,000 Americans turn 65; they are the generation known [...] [...]
Tourism leaders from across the state will meet in Durango for the first Southwest Tourism Summit. The summit, hosted by the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, will be April 5-6 and is dubbed “The Source” because it aims to provide businesses and organizations with seminars, workshops and presentations by tourism industry professionals from around [...] [...]
El Paso County baby boomers could mean big business for those who figure out how to market and create new products and services for the generation with spending power. “There has been abuzz over the last few years about business and boomers,” said Brent Green, CEO of Brent Green & Associates and an expert in [...] [...]
The first baby boomers will be old enough to qualify for Medicare Jan. 1, and many fear the program’s obituary will be written before their own. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that baby boomers believe by a ratio of 2-to-1 they won’t be able to rely on the giant health insurance plan throughout their [...] [...]
Our younger workers are most affected by the current economic crisis even as our older employees are able to handle the trials of this difficult economic time. These findings were reported in a study by Boston College’s Sloan Center on Aging & Work. According to the report, “The Difference a Downturn Can Make,” part of [...] [...]
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