How to Trial a Country Before Committing: The 30/60/90 Day Approach
The 30/60/90 day approach to testing a destination before making a long-term commitment — what to look for and how to decide.
Nonprofit Fractional Roles: Using Your Skills for Good While Traveling the World
How experienced professionals over 50 can use their skills for good by taking fractional roles at nonprofits and NGOs while living abroad.
Best Countries for Remote Work and Affordable Living for Over 50s
Compare the top destinations for remote-working professionals over 50: cost of living, internet quality, visas, healthcare, and quality of life.
Moving Abroad With Pets: What the Process Looks Like
For a significant number of people planning to work or retire abroad after 50, the question of what to do with a pet is not a minor logistical detail — it is one of the primary factors shaping which countries are realistic destinations and how the transition gets planned. The good news is that movin…
When Someone You Love Gets Sick: Health, Caregiving, and What It Does to Relationships
Illness and caregiving are dimensions of relationships after 50 that arrive with greater frequency and greater weight than at any earlier life stage, and they test relationships in specific ways that health and happiness do not. The relationship between two healthy, independent adults who are choosi…
LGBTQ+ Relationships in Later Life: Love, Community, and Identity After 50
For LGBTQ+ adults over 50 — who navigated love and partnership before marriage equality and legal protection — later-life relationships carry unique history, challenges, and strengths. A guide to dating, legal considerations, chosen family, and coming out late.
Protecting Your Estate When You Remarry: Wills, Trusts, and Beneficiary Designations
Remarriage after 50 changes your estate plan in ways that may surprise you. A practical guide to wills, QTIP trusts, beneficiary designations, asset titling, and the conversations that protect everyone you love.
Remarriage After 60: What’s Different, What’s Better, and What to Watch Out For
Remarriage after 60 is genuinely different — in its gifts (self-knowledge, communication, presence) and its pitfalls (moving too fast, financial complexity, unresolved grief). A clear-eyed guide to what makes it work.
When Adult Children Don’t Approve: Setting Boundaries While Keeping the Peace
When adult children oppose a parent’s new relationship, the dynamics are rarely simple. A guide to understanding what’s really driving the resistance, what you are and aren’t obligated to do, and how to manage the long game.
Music and the Aging Brain: The Science and Joy of Musical Engagement in Later Life
For older adults at every point on the spectrum of health, musical engagement offers documented benefits for brain function, emotional wellbeing, physical health, and social connection.
When Your Children Come Between You: Setting Healthy Limits with Adult Kids in a Blended Family
Adult children who disapprove of a parent’s new relationship sometimes make their disapproval felt in ways that damage the couple — and eventually, everyone. Here is how to love your children without letting them run your relationship.
Social Security After 50: When to Claim, How to Maximize, and What Most People Get Wrong
For most Americans, Social Security is the largest single asset they will collect in retirement. The decisions you make about when and how to claim it can mean the difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
