By Christopher Reardon
​Jean Chatzky knew she wanted to be a journalist when writing for the school newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania. Then she began her post-college career as an editorial assistant at Working Woman magazine, where she was assigned to the financial editor. “She taught me that numbers could play an important role in telling a story,” she recently said. Chatzky has been telling the stories of numbers ever since and today is a best-selling author and columnist and serves as the financial editor of NBC’s TODAY show, AARP’s personal finance ambassador and founder and CEO of the multimedia company HerMoney. 

By Christopher Reardon
​Approximately 10,000 baby boomers are retiring every day. The number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to nearly double from 52 million in 2018 to 95 million by 2060, increasing from 16 percent of the U.S. population to 23 percent, according to the Population Reference Bureau. As a result, there could be more than a 50 percent increase in the number of Americans aged 65 and older requiring eldercare, the demand for which also will be driven by a steep rise in the number of Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease, the bureau states.

​My name is John Allen Mollenhauer. My friends call me John Allen or by my initials, “JAM.” I hope you will too.  Here’s a little background on me, so some of the insights that follow make more sense to you. I am a lifestyle performance expert. This new “optimal living” term means that I understand the primary role our lifestyle plays in our health and all diseases (85-95% of which are lifestyle-induced according to the American College of Lifestyle Medicine).