I am passionate about the issues of baby boomers and aging I write about—and know about first hand. I'm a professional in the field, focusing on 50+ caregiving, technology, intergenerational initiatives and boomer and senior housing/living.

I am also a mother of adult children, a wife to a fellow boomer, a grandmother to three young grandsons and a mother-in-law. I have been a long-distance caregiver to elderly parents and in-laws. I even had two beloved dogs who made it into their nineties.

I am an award-winning journalist, speaker and nationally recognized expert on baby boomers and seniors. I have published in TIME, Newsweek, AARP, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Kiplinger, USA Today, The Washington Post, PARADE, PBS Next Avenue  and The Los Angeles Times, among others.

I am also a Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at Babson College where I will mentor students who want to be entrepreneurs in the 50+ demographic, co-teach a class and speak with students and alum about the opportunities for them in the aging and baby boomer space.

I am a member of the National Caregiver Council and have sat on the Advisory Council of Long Term Care convened by Genworth Financial. 

I have been interviewed by the national press, including The Wall Street Journal, CNN and seniorhousingforum.com, and been quoted in The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch, msn news, Psychology Today, The Boston Globe, PBS's Next Avenue, U.S. News & World Report, The Baltimore Sun and Money Magazine.

I have spoken at the national AARP conference, Harvard Business School, Babson College, Aging2.0 and the annual What's Next Business Summit. 

I moderate numerous panels on aging, including Aging2.0Boston’s Aging and Digital Health and The State-of-the-Art of Voice Technology and How to Leverage It for Older People” and What’s Next Boomer Summit’s (in conjunction with the American Society on Aging annual conference) “Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs.” I will be moderating a panel at this year’s What’s Next Boomer Summit in Atlanta.

I've been enriched by what I've learned from two fellowships I was awarded in the field of aging, one from the New York Times Foundation (Age Boom Academy) and the other, the MetLife Foundation.

I am the winner of a min Award in the Single Article-Consumer category for a piece I wrote for Working Mother and a National Mature Media Award for a piece called “Healing With the Help of a Community.

A segment I co-produced for ABC’s “20/20” was nominated for an Emmy Award. More recently, I received the Community Service Award from the Brookline Community Aging Network in my hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts “for outstanding reporting on issues of aging, caregiving, housing and baby boomers.

(I am proud to say that Brookline has an “Age-Friendly” and “Dementia-Friendly” designation; Massachusetts is one of just six states to be part of the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States. We’re progressive!)

More recently, flexjobs.com named me one of the 17 best twitter accounts for older adults to follow.

I have written two books, one that was reviewed in The New York Times with a national book tour.

My latest book credits are a section 50+ technology in 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80 and several chapters in AARP’s Where We Live: Communities for All Ages, both the 2017 and 2018 editions.

Factoid: In more than 40 years of writing, I have never missed a deadline.

I am on the board of the national writers’ organization American Society for Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and recently served as the Boston chapter’s Co-President. In my spare time, I love to play bridge. If I get another dog, I will return to pet therapy at my local nursing home. Aging is my life!