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WE ARE AS MAD AS HELL AND WE WILL NOT RETIRE!

By Lizanne Barnett | April 6, 2015 | 6 Comments

The R-word has no truck among me and my friends. We are experienced and
competent and capable and refuse to be assigned to the R-box by anyone, least of
all ourselves. We are mad because retirement is an artificial invention. Age 59
and 364 days and you are recognised as a productive member of
society:… [Read More]




JOB-HUNTING PROGRAMME

By Lizanne Barnett | May 12, 2016 | 2 Comments

My aim is to get you into a job as quickly as possible! How does two weeks
sound? That is how quickly one of my clients did it! You know that sending
gazillions of CVs into cyberspace does not work. And you know that all the
things you remember about job-hunting are not working, either. In short, this a
different planet for… [Read More]





WORK


WHERE ARE THE FLIPPIN’ JOBS FOR 50+?

By Lizanne Barnett | May 21, 2016 | 0 Comments

The jobs are there, but the truth is that 99% of your efforts may be
misdirected. This used to be the success rate of job hunting methods (roughly):
10% sending CVs to advertised jobs or through employment agencies 25%
approaching employers directly 50% networking 15% a combination of the above No
one has done research… [Read More]




HUMAN RESOURCES! ARE YOU AGEIST?

By Lizanne Barnett | April 11, 2016 | 0 Comments

In going for the gold of youth, are you missing out on the silver of age? It is
easy for any HR practitioner to be focused youth; it is almost a no-brainer:
they cost less, they can be molded and trained in your ways, they are digitally
smart and inexpensive. Besides, they are better looking…. [Read More]




SCARED OF JOB-HUNTING? BASH DOWN THAT WALL!

By Lizanne Barnett | January 15, 2016 | 0 Comments

It is easy to construct a whole wall out of reasons not to job-hunt. Once we
start looking for negatives, we become masters in the craft of obscuring the
future. We can find reason after reason, laying each one like a brick on top the
first, as though we have never heard of windows or doors. That is
not… [Read More]





EARN


Q & A: PROPERTY – DEEDS

By Adam Robinson | June 9, 2016 | 0 Comments

Q: When a home loan is fully repaid, is it financially of any benefit to
transfer into home owner’s name or should the deeds be held by the Bank until
the death of the home owner? On death it would presumably go into the estate and
then onto the spouse, if the will was set… [Read More]




Q&A INVESTING A RETRENCHMENT PACKAGE

By Adam Robinson | September 10, 2016 | 0 Comments

Q: I have a retrenchment package and would like to invest some into a new
business and some for retirement.Can you give me some general pointers? (I live
in South Africa.) A: Firstly there may be some tax implications on your
retrenchment package but there are special tax rates applicable to severance
benefits. From 1 March 2014… [Read More]




FINANCIAL FREEDOM 101

By Lizanne Barnett | August 13, 2015 | 0 Comments

Review: BECOME YOUR OWN FINANCIAL ADVISOR by Warren Ingram Confession: I spent
67 years of my life shying away from anything financial. No amount of rational
thinking and advice got through to me and I have paid the price. Even when I ran
my own business I often let my heart overrule my head: I… [Read More]




NO RETIREMENT SAVINGS? PICK YOURSELF UP, DUST YOURSELF OFF AND START ALL OVER
AGAIN!

By Lizanne Barnett | May 1, 2015 | 0 Comments

Finding yourself at the age of 50, 60 or 70 without a retirement fund, is not a
happy discovery. Whatever the reason, there will be feelings of despair. The
first thing to do is realize that this is a loss like any other, and may follow
a typical psychological pattern after loss: denial anger bargaining… [Read More]





HEALTH


WOULD YOU TAKE ANTI-AGEING DRUG?

By Lizanne Barnett | December 1, 2015 | 0 Comments

A common and inexpensive drug holds the promise of an old age which stretches
to 120 years. Metformin used by diabetics, has had such good results in
experiments that new studies are in the works to see if it fulfils the promise.
At Silver Mettle we promote a productive old age, but sometimes when the future
hurries up to… [Read More]




WHY YOGA FOR OLDER BODIES?

By Lynne Abrahamson | October 15, 2015 | 0 Comments

An extended working life creates more need for relaxation and stress relief.
Many older individuals would not think of beginning a yoga practice as they
equate yoga with youth and twisting into pretzel shapes. However, with the right
teacher who can help you adapt postures and suggest props suited to your
ability, a satisfying yoga… [Read More]





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NOT RETIRED: DR HENRY HEIMLICH

By Lizanne Barnett | June 22, 2016 | 0 Comments

We all know the Heimlich manoeuvre (you know! that force applied to the solar
plexus to dislodge food in the windpipe), but the man who bears its name, only
applied it for first time at 96! Dr Henry Heimlich was staying in a retirement
home but was clearly not retired in his mind, because when a… [Read More]




NOT RETIRED: BETTEE DE GROOTE

By Lizanne Barnett | November 22, 2015 | 1 Comment

Bettee de Groote is in her mid seventies but nothing daunts her, including
tackling digital challenges head on. Here is her story. ‘After a high-powered
job in Johannesburg with all the trimmings such as international travel, a
personal assistant, vehicle, the lot, I, together with my husband, moved to the
Cape, basically to get away… [Read More]




NOT RETIRED: MARY MYRDAL

By Lizanne Barnett | November 21, 2015 | 4 Comments

Mary Myrdal lives in Cape Town, South Africa; but now in her 70’s, she is still
going regularly to Mexico to source beautiful silver jewellery. She always
brings back new, exciting pieces which she sells in her home town. At the same
time she brings stories of new adventures. This is the story of how she
found a… [Read More]




NOT RETIRED: PIETER DIRK UYS

By Lizanne Barnett | October 3, 2015 | 0 Comments

(aka Tannie Evita) Happy birthday to Pieter who turned 70 on the 28th of
September 2015. And to Tannie Evita who turned 80! Tannie says ‘Liewe aarde! 80
must be the new 60!’ ‘Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945 and has been
in the theatre since the mid-1960s. Closely associated with both
the… [Read More]




NOT RETIRED: ANNA BOTHA

By Lizanne Barnett | October 1, 2015 | 0 Comments

Anna Botha is the coach behind the performance the recent 400m world champion
Wayde van Niekerk at the IAAF Championships in Beijing. She is 73. Originally
from Namibia, she is now head coach at the University of the Free State, South
Africa. Interviewed in the South African newspaper City Press, she said, “This
[Beijing], was… [Read More]





NEWS


GOOD NEWS FOR MATURE TECHIES!

By Lizanne Barnett | September 2, 2016 | 0 Comments

If you are a mature techie, a recent survey which found that ‘Tech employees
over age 55 are actually less stressed using technology in the workplace, and
better at using multiple devices than their younger peers’ will come as no
surprise to unappreciated you! “It’s dangerous for companies to assume that if
you’re under 35, you’re… [Read More]




ELDERS AND ‘YOUNGERS’ BELONG TOGETHER

By Lizanne Barnett | February 27, 2016 | 0 Comments

The division of the ages is unnatural and surely not good for us. In Seattle,
USA, is an example which shows the way: 4-year-olds and 90-year-olds happily
side by side in a care community. ‘The Mount’ is a full-time care facility for
400 older adults, but is also home to a preschool for more than 100 children.
The… [Read More]




A QUARTER OF NEW ENTREPRENEURS ARE AGED 55-64

By Lizanne Barnett | January 15, 2016 | 0 Comments

According to the 2013 Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity the age group
55-64 experienced a rising share of all new entrepreneurs in USA. And in Great
Britain in 2014, the New Enterprise Allowance, a government scheme providing
startup support, proved particularly popular with the over-50s. In this age
group 14,000 people set up businesses through them, compared… [Read More]




JOBS FOR SENIORS: JAPAN LEADING?

By Lizanne Barnett | December 20, 2015 | 0 Comments

33% of Japan’s population is above the age 60, 25.9% are 65 or above, 12.5% aged
75 or above. This is due to many interesting factors (see links below) but it
means that Japan needs to raise its retirement age to 77! The percentage of
seniors in Japan who want to work past age 60 exceeds… [Read More]




WHO PLANS TO RETIRE?

By Lizanne Barnett | December 15, 2015 | 0 Comments

‘Almost half of full-time workers aged 50-64 plan to retire between ages 65-69’
According to a 2015 AARP survey of full-time workers aged 50-64, “the most
popular age for [projected] retirement falls between 65-69 (45%).  The balance
of respondents are split between retiring early, before the age of 65 (23%), or
late, at 70+ (26%).  Very… [Read More]




WOULD YOU TAKE ANTI-AGEING DRUG?

By Lizanne Barnett | December 1, 2015 | 0 Comments

A common and inexpensive drug holds the promise of an old age which stretches
to 120 years. Metformin used by diabetics, has had such good results in
experiments that new studies are in the works to see if it fulfils the promise.
At Silver Mettle we promote a productive old age, but sometimes when the future
hurries up to… [Read More]




MARKETERS IGNORE +50 YEAR OLDS

By Lizanne Barnett | November 30, 2015 | 0 Comments

51% of consumer spending done by people over 50. 10% of marketing activity is
directed towards people over 50. – U.S. Bureau of Labor, September 2015 When
organisations do not employ +50 year olds (who may I remind you, make 51% of the
consumer decisions), what kind of decisions are made? If the population of a
company… [Read More]




BRITISH WORKERS DELAY RETIREMENT

By Lizanne Barnett | October 8, 2015 | 0 Comments

‘More and more workers in Britain are delaying their retirement, which has
employers worried. New research released by professional services firm Towers
Watson shows that almost half of all businesses in the UK are scared that
workers cannot afford to retire at the right age. The Fit for Retirement report,
which surveyed more than 100… [Read More]




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