Neal E. Cutler

Neal E. Cutler holds the Boettner/Gregg Chair in Financial Gerontology at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he directs Financial Literacy 2000, a research program focusing on the impact of aging – including middle-aging – on issues of finance, health, retirement, and family. He is also Director of Survey Research for the National Council on the Aging where he has been responsible for the current phase of NCOA’s Myths and Realities of Aging surveys. At Widener he teaches in both the School of Human Service Professions and the School of Business Administration.

Since 1989 Dr. Cutler has been the organizing scholar of the field of Financial Gerontology – the aim of which is to bring the concepts and issues of gerontology to the field of financial services, and similarly to emphasize the importance of finance to the practice of gerontology. His professional activity continues to be recognized on “both sides” of this field: He is on the Editorial Boards of The Gerontologist and the American Journal of Alzheimer’s Research and Other Dementias and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Service Professionals. He is a Fellow of both the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Gerontological Society of America. He is a past Chair of the National Institute on Financial Services for Elders.

Finance and Gerontology are also brought together in his newest book, Advising Mature Clients: The New Science of Wealth Span Planning (Wiley [J.K.LasserPro Books], 2002). As co-author his earlier books include Can You Afford to Retire? and Aging, Money, and Life Satisfaction: Aspects of Financial Gerontology. He was Consulting Editor to the Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology. Among other topics, Dr. Cutler’s Financial Gerontology presentations include:

• New Definitions of Retirement in America

• Historical Changes in the Human Wealth Span

• Public Understanding & Misunderstanding of Alzheimer’s Disease

• Long-Term Care Planning and the Fear of the Unknown

• The Demography and Psychology of Family Financial Planning

• Boomer Attitudes toward Money, Aging, and Longevity

• Contemporary Response to the Question: How Old is Old?

His national and international experience includes serving as a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging (1979-81), Fulbright Fellowships to Helsinki University (1972) and Glasgow University (1988), and directing a three-year NIH grant to develop long-term care decision software in collaboration with Quicken Financial Planner. Prior to coming to Pennsylvania Dr. Cutler was Professor of Political Science and Gerontology at the University of Southern California, and was Associate Director of the USC Andrus Gerontology Center’s Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology and Geriatrics.

Known for mixing humor with scholarship, Dr. Cutler has made presentations to The Vanguard Group, Smith-Barney University, Royal Atlantic, and TIAA-CREF, among others. In addition to over 200 publications in scholarly journals, since 1990 he has written a bimonthly “Financial Gerontology” column for the Journal of Financial Service Professionals.

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