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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.barrons.com/articles/aging-in-place-and-how-to-stay-in-your-home-when-you-retire-51559345358\nHow to Stay in Your Home When You Retire\nReshma Kapadia\nPhotograph by Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images\nMost people want to stay put as they age. and just as there is a wave of disruption in senior housing, there is disruption in the ways to help people stay out of senior housing and keep them in their homes.\nThe first step in thinking about aging in place is retrofitting the house, with features like elevated ovens and flexible faucets, at least one no-step entryway, and D-shaped knobs on cabinets to help arthritic hands.\nWhen renovating a home, experts on aging recommend leaving a closet open for a future elevator, widening doorways to accommodate wheelchairs, and installing full baths on the first floor. Also helpful: hiring an occupational therapist who can assess a home and help make tweaks based on need. Some of these modifications may be covered by long-term care insurance, so it’s a good idea to check.\nThat’s the relatively easy part. A bigger challenge is battling loneliness, shown to be as damaging as obesity and smoking to one’s health, which can become more burdensome once someone has a harder time getting around.\nHow to Pick Your Retirement Home\nGrass-roots initiatives have emerged, most famously with communities like the Beacon Hill Village in Boston, that try to make aging in place more feasible. Now more than 200-strong, the village movement applies to seniors the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child.”\nEach village is different, though most charge an annual fee, often a couple hundred dollars, for services. These can include a vetted list of service providers like handymen and care managers, access to cultural events, discussions, and other gatherings.\nThe average village has 145 members and 92 volunteers, with only 14% of members on average in fair or poor health, according to the Village to Village Network, which acts as a hub for these informal communities. The challenge will be when their residents become older and less healthy, requiring more assistance, including with the shower and toilet. The group is already trying to help villages segue into that care role, either by using its own resources and volunteers to offer rides, run errands, and even outsource additional care to prevent or delay the need for assisted or skilled nursing care, says Barbara Sullivan, executive director.\nSome villages, like Capitol Hill Village in Washington, have two licensed social workers to work with its volunteers, while another, Tierrasanta Village in San Diego, has tried to divvy up a caregiver’s time among members who may need just a couple of hours each.\nMore businesses are also emerging to fill the gap. For example, some continuing-care retirement communities are starting services aimed at those aging in place, incorporating long-term care insurance, care management, and staffed caregivers for a fee. Other start-ups are trying to pool 25 people in proximity together to offer them care management, meals, help with medicine, and other services for a monthly fee that comes in at a fraction of what they would pay in assisted living.\nNew technologies, from wearable devices to telemedicine, are also aimed at delaying, if not preventing, the need for assisted living or skilled nursing care and allowing more people to have a shot at having their retirement plans play out.\nWrite to Reshma Kapadia at reshma.kapadia@barrons.com\nMost people want to stay put as they age."

ERROR: type should be string, got "https://stacker.com/stories/6511/50-most-common-jobs-held-women-100-years-ago\n50 most common jobs held by women 100 years ago\nEllen Dewitt, provided by\nPublished 7:00 am EST, Tuesday, January 12, 2021\nThe past century has been a remarkable one for women in the workplace. Today their presence is generally unquestioned and, at least before the pandemic, women outnumbered men. As of December 2020, women held 50.04% of the jobs in the United States, not counting farm workers and the self-employed, according to the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.\nIn the 1920s, more than 8 million women, or 1 in 5, were earning salaries, typically as clerks, waitresses, teachers, and telephone operators, laboring amid attitudes that women should not work outside the home if their husbands were employed and that working women were taking jobs away from men who needed them more. Plenty of high-paying, powerful jobs were kept out of women’s reach, and women often were expected to quit their paying jobs if they got married.\nWomen only got the right to vote in 1920, and the Fair Labor Standards Act, signed into law by President Frankin D. Roosevelt, established a minimum wage, standardized work week, a requirement to pay overtime, and child labor bans in 1938. Not until 1963 did the Equal Pay Act formally forbid paying men and women different wages for the same work.\nOf course, problems persist. Women make about 81 cents for every dollar earned by men, and the explosive #MeToo movement illustrated how untold numbers of women have struggled with sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.\nStacker has compiled a list of the most common jobs held by women a century ago by looking...\nThe past century has been a remarkable one for women in the workplace. Today their presence is generally unquestioned and, at least before the pandemic,\nPhoto: Minnesota Historical Society/Corbis Via Getty Images\nImage 1 of / 64\nStacker has compiled a list of the most common jobs held by women a century ago by looking at comparison tables from 1920 in the 1940 U.S. Census.\nFerris State to celebrate MLK with virtual events\nSpectrum Health honors legacy of MLK Jr."