Are Women Prepared to Live Long and Prosper?
If you are a woman, try to imagine yourself at ninety-something. You’ve outlived your husband or partner, and you’ve been a widow or alone for over twenty years. Except for a period when you might have been raising children, you worked most of your life at a career with a less-than-equitable salary. You are now surviving on a modest Social Security benefit and now must sell your home of forty years to pay for assisted living care because you can no longer manage on your own. Sound far-fetched? Think again. This was my neighbor’s story, and it could be your…