Archive for April, 2008

Barbara Corcoran’s new book, Nextville: Amazing Places to Spend the Rest of Your Life is in bookstores everywhere today. To kick off the book, she appeared on the Today show this morning. You can see her appeareance here.

You can also read an excerpt from the book on their website.

Filed under: Media

Barbara Corcoran’s new book Nextville will be in stores in a few weeks, and already people are talking.

On iVillage here’s what they say:

Here’s an interesting new book that came across my desk today. While I’m a long way from retirement, I confess that I periodically daydream about what it would be like not to have to get up every morning and rush off to work. In Nextville: Amazing Places to Live for the Rest of Your Life, real estate expert Barbara Corcoran give her advice for how to find the right community for your retirement and suggestions of some of the places that might fit your future lifestyle whether you’re looking to live green or pursue your passion…

The book was also reviewed in the Retirement Living News monthly newsletter:

…Corcoran reveals the smartest real estate choices they can make today to ensure a secure, comfortable, and fabulously fun tomorrow…”

Barbara will be on the Today Show later this month to promote the book, and look for her in the April issue of Redbook too!

Filed under: Media

Yesterday on its Health Blog, The Wall Street Journal is reporting on advances in Alzheimer’s treatments.

Alzheimer’s is on the rise, but scientists are making progress on treatments they think may finally make a dent in the disease.

But as Forbes reports, researchers still aren’t certain about the cause of the illness. That gap in knowledge means that a range of drugs that aim to clear the brain of amyloid plaque, clumps of protein fragments that are one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s, may never work.

It’s distressing to hear that they’re still so unsure about the disease, but at least they feel like they’re getting somewhere. Read the rest of the post here.

It’s even more distressing when you see the numbers that the Alzheimer’s Association report:

5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease now.

7.7 million Americans will have it by 2030.

71,696 Deaths from Alzheimer’s in 2005.

45% Increase in Alzheimer’s deaths since 2000.

$148 billion Yearly cost of treating and caring for these patients.

The print edition of the WSJ’s “Blog Watch” section last week listed a few Alzheimer’s-related blogs that they’ve been keeping an eye on:

-Living with Alzheimers’
-The Yellow Wallpaper
-MYSA.com’s Alzheimer’s blog

Are there any others that you think are good?

Filed under: Boomers