For this week’s show we speak with Kathy Dragon, CEO of TravelDragon.com, owner of The Dragon’s Path, & VP of Dragon Consulting Inc. Kathy has spent the past two decades in the center of the active, adventure and sustainable travel industry. As a tour operator and guide she has personally escorted over 3000 guests on small group tours around the globe and created programs in conjunction with local guides and properties. Kathy is a frequent international speaker and consultant in the travel industry specifically focusing on authentic/responsible travel and the influence of the Boomer & Beyond market…those who expect and are willing to invest in this new type of travel. A contributing author of BOOM: Marketing to the Ultimate Power Consumer—The Baby Boomer Woman, Kathy is a frequent speaker and creator of content for industry blogs, newsletters, podcasts and articles.

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For this week’s show, The Business of… Brain Fitness, we have guest Henry Mahncke, CEO of Posit Science, the leader in clinically proven brain fitness software. Their software is scientific brain training designed to improve memory and cognitive skills.

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For this week’s show, The Business of… Assistive Listening Devices for Older Consumers, we have guest Michele Ahlman, President of ClearSounds Communications, a Chicago-based privately held company that provides high-quality sound enhancing products for the boomer, senior and caregivers market. As a leading provider of niche telephone and communication products, ClearSounds is the leading manufacturer and distributor of ClearSounds branded products including amplified phones, signaling devices, TV listening systems, clocks, audio accessories and cellular products.

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For this week’s show, The Business of…Learning in Later Life, we spoke with Susan Hoffman, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of California – Berkeley. We discuss the programs available to continue learning throughout life, and the proliferation of OLLIs (Osher lifelong learning institutes).

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In A Brutal Economy, Boomers Rewrite The Next Chapter

11/16/2011
(This story appears in the Dec. 5, 2011 issue of Forbes.)

It is the first show of our second season! For it we spoke with guest Jeffrey DeMure, an architect and founder of Jeffrey DeMure & Associates (J D + A).

For more than 20 years, he has been focused on residential and mixed use architecture and land planning throughout the United States. He and his team are responsible for some of the most forward-thinking planning and designs for housing the aging population.

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For our second show of the season we spoke with guest Jeff Rosenfeld, co-author of the new book Unassisted Living: Ageless Homes for Later Life.

Jeff is a PhD and director of the Gerontology program and the Gerontology Center at Hofstra University. He has a long-time interest in the interplay between aging and home design. Unassisted Living is his second book in collaboration with Wid Chapman, the interior design program chair at Parsons School of Design. The book is a visual feast! I don’t think I’ve seen any book that acknowledges the spirit of t baby boomer generation and how we actually want to live as we age. On our program Jeff explains the concept.

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Last week at the AARP Life@50+ event in Los Angeles, I was interviewed by Boomer Baby Radio‘s host Barbara Beach, where we chatted about my role as the new Publisher of GRAND Magazine – and a new grandparent! Listen here.

Were you at AARP @50+ last week? What was your experience there?

For this article Can Empty Nesters Still Afford to Splurge? in the current issue of SmartMoney, I spoke with writer Missy Sullivan about the empty nesters’ mentality.

For this article Stores Make Changes for Older Shoppers, in AARP Magazine’s September/October issue, on retailers’ changes for older shoppers, I was asked what trends we at Continuum Crew were tracking. Read what I told Christina where the ‘big shift’ was.