If we all put aside the ten minutes it takes to take action, we can collectively implement change.
Maddy Dychtwald | Posted 05.16.2012
Ultimately, what the new cyclic life offers us is time. Time to relax. Time to explore. Time to reconsider. Time to reinvent. Time to fire up our engines and time to dial them down again.
Levi Ben-Shmuel | Posted 01.01.2012
Many of us live our "legacies" every day through how we conduct ourselves and by following our chosen paths with integrity. Sharing lessons by example to the next generation is a powerful and wonderful gift.
Forbes | Posted 12.20.2011
For three decades Ken Dychtwald has been proclaiming that a demographic tidal wave is approaching America. He calls it the Age Wave, which is also the...
Levi Ben-Shmuel | Posted 12.11.2011
Ken Dychtwald, a visionary gerontologist and lecturer, coined the term age wave in the 1980s after realizing the Baby Boomer generation turning 60+ would dramatically shift the composition and needs of society.
Bernard Starr | Posted 10.30.2011
Visionaries like gerontologist Ken Dychtwald warned decades ago about "train wrecks" ahead when he foresaw the implications of a society demographically dominated by the third age (age 60-plus adults). Now those warnings have turned prophetic.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2011
What if some factor in Standard & Poor's downgrade is their unchallenged belief that older adults are essentially a "burden" -- that your mom and dad (and in the years ahead -- you) have absolutely nothing useful to contribute to society?
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
What Ronald Reagan taught me on the occasion of his 79th birthday is that believing in America is terrific, but loving America is an even higher form of patriotism.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
While the current financial "reckoning" has caused many retirement dreams to shrink or even disappear altogether, it also provides a much-needed social/financial/spiritual wake-up call.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
The Dychtwalds appreciate their differences and according to Pearl, "It's not despite our differences that we have succeeded in creating such a rich life together, but because of them."
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
We should focus on re-visioning healthcare's purpose: to create long-lived, productive and healthy men and women.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
We're caught up in the myth that by achieving and going up the ladder and having more stuff we'll feel full inside. Yet it isn't so.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
The current economic reckoning has created vast financial losses and uncertainty during the last year, triggering all generations to reassess the funding, timing and purpose of retirement.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
When the dust from the economic crisis settles, young men and women will be more broke than they were a year ago, while their parents and grandparents - although financially damaged - will control an even greater share of the spending power.
Maddy Dychtwald | Posted 04.23.2012