There is health, and there is fitness. And there is some discussion that you cannot have both as you age up. In this episode Jeff talks with Marcus Riley about how both health and fitness can successfully come together as we age up and stay competitive.

Author Stuart Kaplan breaks down ways to thrive at any stage of life.

Re-entering the workforce after retirement is not how most people plan to spend their golden years, but 7% of retirees have ‘un-retired’ in the past six months, according to a survey released by AARP in February. Of those who returned to jobs after retirement, 48% said their primary reason was because they needed money or had a poor economic outlook. “Basic expenses are the No. 1 reason older adults continue to work or job-hunt,” said Carly Roszkowski, vice president of financial resilience programming at AARP in a statement.

While an aging population is obviously a stressor on the system, shortfalls in US eldercare stem not just from an increasingly aged population, but rather from a combination of profit-driven ownership and ageist ideology, which together produce devastating outcomes.