fURTHER reading about Our Generation

Written By Neil Offen

Here’s some of what we have seen recently that might be of particular interest to our generation. (Apologies for any pay walls.):

·         6 Supplements You Might Actually Need After 50, Michelle Crouch and Jeanette Beebe, AARP, Jan. 23, 2026

·         8 Hobbies Neuroscientists Recommend to Keep Your Brain Sharp, Lauren Thomann, Real Simple, May 21, 2026

·         A Personal Finance Star on What Millennials Need From Their Boomer Parents, David Marchese, The New York Times Magazine, May 9, 2026

·         Can Forgetting Help You Remember?, Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, May 13, 2024

·         At 92, she’s as fit as someone half her age, Gretchen Reynolds, The Washington Post, June 10, 2026

·         Retirees Expect Their Home to Be a Financial Safety Net. They Shouldn’t, Martha C. White, The New York Times, May 9, 2026

·     As a doctor, I tell people to do these 4 things to reduce age-related muscle loss, Jordan D. Metzl, MD, The Washington Post,June 15, 2026

·         Why singing is surprisingly good for your health, David Cox, BBC, Dec. 1, 2025

·         Supercentenarian gives scientists insight on secrets of healthy old age, Ian Sample, The Guardian, Sept. 24, 2025

·         Uncanny Testimony.As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, Longreads, Sept. 25, 2025

      Here are our earlier suggestions. (Apologies, again, for any pay walls.) Send us what you’ve seen at: WritingAboutOurGeneration@gmail.com.

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Neil Offen

Neil Offen, one of the editors of this site, is the author of Building a Better Boomer, a hilarious guide to how baby boomers can better see, hear, exercise, eat, sleep and retire better. He has been a humor columnist for four decades and on two continents. A longtime journalist, he’s also been a sports reporter, a newspaper and magazine editor, a radio newsman, written a nationally syndicated funny comic strip and been published in a variety of formats, including pen, crayon, chalk and, once, under duress, his wife’s eyebrow pencil. The author or co-author of more than a dozen books, he is, as well, the man behind several critically acclaimed supermarket shopping lists. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.

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