This assistance often starts small and take many forms: cell phone expenses, groceries, and car payments, but can quickly balloon to much more costly expenditures that threaten your financial well-being.

Transportation is an important, yet often overlooked factor for older adults to evaluate where to live. While many “where to live” guides and sites provide helpful information on housing costs, income opportunities, tax rates, and other criteria to consider when picking one’s retirement residence, typically transportation offerings for seniors are typically ignored (as far as I know).

This article provides insights from my personal experience and that of friends, and people I have talked with about our retirements and about what has made retirement work well for us.

Age Friendly Advisor  focuses on where we live and work in our later years - and how we engage with our communities. Go to your town's page and post your review.  What makes it age friendly - or not?  Go to the 'Working' section and post an employer review.  What makes your employer age friendly - or not?

“We need engagement from the bottom in addition to action from the top,” the World Health Organization’s Dr. John Beard tells Age Friendly Advisor.

As cities take on disruptive challenges, in particular harnessing technological disruptions and managing aging populations, this note suggests a five-stage framework to guide cities along their innovation journey.