Description: The Society of Actuaries Retirement Section Research Committee has sponsored a retirement project on the impact of megatrends and paradigm shifts on retirement plan design and funding. Various aspects were examined in the context of the future of retirement plans, including: Sociocultural Economic Technological Health and Long-term Care Environmental Presenters will address how the future is changing and challenge accepted thinking about retirement issues, as well as highlight new areas for consideration. At the end, you will have a better understanding of megatrends and how actuaries and others may address the changes in retirement plans.

Description: This session reviews current trends in patterns of retirement and provides an update on legislation to facilitate phased retirement. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 62PD.

Description: This paper focuses on the situation of women at high ages and the implications of longer life for women. This paper draws on and brings together work done by the Society of Actuaries in connection with the 2005 post-retirement risk survey, work from Social Security administration studies, U.S. government census data, WISER, the MetLife Mature Market Institute and papers funded by the Social Security research center.

Description: The 2020 ERISA Advisory Council of the Department of Labor had a project on Considerations for Recognizing and Addressing Participants with Diminished Capacity. I delivered testimony to the ERSIA Advisory Council on this topic in September 2020. This article summarizes some key points from the testimony and also offers ideas for how employers can help employees and retirees deal with these issues. There are two different audiences that employers deal with as a result of diminished capacity – the individuals whose capacity is diminished, and those who help them.

Description: Discusses some basic issues for women to consider in planning for the possibility of being alone.

Description: This article provides an overview of the relationship to COVID-19 to issues related to caregiving, family and long-term care, and related SOA research. The SOA has addressed these topics in several research reports not related to COVID-19 and in recent reports related to COVID-19. It is currently working on new projects to help people better address some of the issues. The article also includes some highlights of efforts by ASEC, the ERISA Advisory Council 2020 projects, and an educational program focused on these issues. It then focuses on a number of things that employers might do to be supportive in addressing these issues. The employer issues focus on employees, retirees and caregiving employers. In thinking about this, employers can focus on financial wellness programs, employee assistance programs, and prepaid legal programs. A list of topics to considered for educational offers is included.

Description: This paper focuses on the situation of women at high ages and the implications of longer life for women. This paper draws on and brings together work done by the Society of Actuaries in connection with the 2005 post-retirement risk survey, work from Social Security administration studies, U.S. government census data, WISER, the MetLife Mature Market Institute and papers funded by the Social Security research center.

Description: The SOA is pleased to make available a series of reports highlighting the SOA's extensive boy of research on post-retirement risks and issues.

Description: Essay submission on impact of COVID-19 on Senior Housing and Support.

Description: Article presents issues for postretirement medical on models, data and the frail elderly. From Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.