Welcome to “45 Forward” with Ron Roel, where the mission is to make your second half of life even better than the first!  Thanks to advances in medicine and health, most of us are just approaching our half-life when we reach the mid-40s, with many productive years ahead. But there’s no road map to prepare us for this kind of longevity. That’s where 45 Forward comes in. This show offers vital strategies to shift the traditional “waiting-for-retirement model” to a continuous, evolving journey of compelling life chapters. Each episode tackles an aspect of health, finance, family and friends, housing, work and personal pursuits—all as part of an integrated plan. Experts discuss topics like revitalizing relationships, creating mini-retirements, managing the maze of technology, finding your next homestead and caring for aging parents. And people from a kaleidoscope of backgrounds recount their personal stories—active lives that grow with inspiring change and purpose throughout their later years.  Fear of the future is not knowing how to prepare for it. But with 45 Forward, you’ll feel a sense of renewed confidence—and hopefully some comfort—in being able to take charge of your “unretiring life” during these uncertain times.

Ron Roel is a veteran writer, speaker and radio show host who specializes in “successful aging strategies,” providing useful information, pragmatic solutions, and compelling stories to help people explore rewarding experiences throughout life. Ron hosts a weekly national internet radio show, “45 Forward,” exploring a wide range of topics and inspiring stories to help prepare people for their journey through the second half of life. (His tagline is “Make the Second Half of Life Even Better than the First.”) Ron also has developed a special expertise in family caregiving and is the author of the recently published Caregiving Navigator: How to Plan, What to Do, and Where to Turn When Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones…And Yourself, a comprehensive guide for family caregivers on Long Island. Ron spent 20 years as a writer and editor at Newsday, Long Island’s daily newspaper, helping to found Act 2, the paper’s weekly section for readers aged 50-plus.  As President of Roel Resources, he continues to write widely on aging topics and has spoken at numerous conferences, and on radio and TV shows, including recent Caregiver Summits at Hofstra University. He has been an active advocacy volunteer for AARP, serving as a member of AARP’s New York State Executive Council and participating in New York’s ongoing Master Plan for Aging, as well as AARP’s Age-Friendly Glen Cove Advisory Board. Ron also serves on the Board of the Gray Panthers NYC and volunteers for the Long Island chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association as a Community Educator. He is a member of the National Aging in Place Council Long Island Chapter, the Nassau Senior Umbrella Network, the Glen Cove Chamber of Commerce and the Inter Agency Council of Glen Cove. He earned a B.A. degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

To contact Ron, please email him at:  ron.roel@gmail.com

To learn more about Ron and his work, visit his websites: www.roelresources.com  &  www.caregivingnav.com