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Using Technology to Stay in Your Home Longer

Bill Vicary
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

With 77 million baby boomers currently retired or soon to be retiring in the United States, our population continues to age.  And it’s safe to say that most of them want to stay in their homes for as long as possible.  But our next guest says that a big impediment to that desire is technology: learning it and using it effectively.

Mike Switzer interviews Bill Vicary, founder and president of Vicary Management Group in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.