Creative Retirement for Women is a solution based guide for the most common problems of retirement for women and couples. The book provides practical solutions for a wide variety of difficult retirement topics. As a therapist, the author's focus is to help you discover your personal traits and interests for designing your individual plan for maximum health benefits. Learn how to manage an unprepared partner to save your retirement. Establish creative income with existing skills to benefit your budget and longevity. Downsize your home while balancing your budget without sacrifice. Plan for better health and greater quality of live by making small lifestyle adjustments. Discover how improved health also improves your financial health. Learn safe and sustainable investing for the long term.

Why this book? Most books on Retirement are really about Financial Planning or Estate Planning. Not this book! This book is about creating a fulfilling life in retirement; it is a crossover book between self-help and retirement. Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life entices people to set out their hidden dreams, to reveal their lost hopes and to admit their secret desires, and then to plan a life to include them! This book encourages risk taking, honesty, and trusting yourself and others to make a fulfilling life in retirement. This book is aimed at those already retired, and it entices the Baby Boomers who are now retiring in ever increasing numbers. These Baby Boomers have had everything, done everything and will continue to be a driving force in their retirement. They also have a deep hunger to be fulfilled. Many of them have led fast, hectic, shallow lives and they have never explored their souls or their dreams. This book invites them to do both! Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life encompasses my own experience. I have retired twice AND I am having the time of my life doing the things I've always wanted to do - following my dreams! I know that retirement can be the most fulfilling time of life. My coaching clients have left their stereotypical thinking behind, thrown off their insecurities and fears to do great things! They have become computer literate, published authors, public speakers and lay preachers. Some have traveled to places they had always dreamed about, others have stepped into roles with family and friends in important new ways that have given them a sense of self-worth and deep feelings of fulfillment. Retirement is a time of living and doing exciting things; it is a time of loving and helping others, and it is about finding the 'real you' within and manifesting that in all its glory! For more information about the book please visit www.bmwalker.com.

Congratulations on your retirement. What type of retirement did you select? Retirement with no work? Phased-in retirement with phased-out work? Retirement with part-time work? Or did you select no retirement with continued work? Regardless of which type of retirement you selected, it is the right retirement for you. You are now entering a new phase in your life journey that will last 20 years on average. In many instances it will last a lot longer with many of you living a retirement that equals, or even exceeds, that of your work life. Regardless of the type of retirement you have chosen or how long it lasts, it will be more rewarding if you take charge and create short- and long-term retirement goals as a guide for your daily life. The time will fly by just like it did when you were working. In order to help you with the next phase of your life journey, Create Your Own Rewarding Retirement has been designed as a companion text to Discover the Right Retirement for You in which you discovered the type of retirement that was best for you. This book goes beyond that to help you create and complete your goals after you retire. The reader has several choices as to how to use this book. You can use it as a workbook by completing all of the chapter worksheets and creating your retirement goals; or you can use it as a history book to chronical your journey as you create and complete each goal; or you can use it as a storybook about the retirement expectations and experiences of people just like you. Each of choices will be of value to you. Ideally this book is intended to be used in all three ways and it is recommended that you do so to achieve the maximum value from it. Remember that you, and you alone, have the ability to make an ordinary retirement into an extraordinary one.

This important book shares insights derived from surveys, interviews, and focus groups conducted with a diverse group of first-wave Baby Boomer female professionals (born 1946–1956). These individuals changed the workplace in the 1970s and are now changing views of retirement. In Thriving in Retirement: Lessons from Baby Boomer Women, profiles of highly diverse professional women are interwoven with information gleaned from surveys, interviews, and focus groups, thereby allowing readers to identify with individuals similar to themselves, whether through profession, education, personal concerns, or demographics. In spite of dissimilarities in backgrounds, career paths, and personal experiences, these women have much in common. As they leave their full-time careers, they are committed to exploring new post-career identities while finding ways to stay engaged, share their professional expertise, and develop deeply held personal interests and passions they may have set aside in the past. The Baby Boomer women profiled here reveal details such as the early influences on their education and career choices, the aspects of their careers they enjoyed the most, the opportunities and roadblocks they encountered, as well as how they balanced marriage and family responsibilities with their careers. Readers will benefit from the examples set by these women, whose diversity and varying experiences provide inspiration for nearly anyone of retirement age who finds herself wondering "What's next?"

In this nontraditional guide, the editors showcase the voices of 38 women as they confront the need to redefine who they are when they leave the workplace behind them. 34 photos.

In the last century, changes to the nature and patterns of women’s working lives have been vast. Notably, the huge increase in women’s participation in the paid workforce means that today women are retiring in unprecedented numbers. How do they cope with this lifestyle transition? What major difficulties do they face? How do they process the problems associated with managing this transition in fulfilling ways while juggling family, financial, friendship, ageing and health issues? To date, most retirement studies have focused on men, and therefore gender-specific issues relating to post-work life, such as the pay gap, the double shift, women’s longer lifespans and their traditional roles as carers and social nurturers, have been afforded far less attention. Women and Retirement: Challenges of a New Life Stage is the first book of its kind to examine women’s retirement using a lifespan perspective. Based on the authors’ extensive study of over 1,000 retired Australian women as well as current research, the book presents models of various retirement trajectories and compares women’s experiences with the more widely researched retirement experiences of men. Moore and Rosenthal consider the nature of the transition from full-time work to retirement and the many different pathways and factors influencing this journey: women’s financial status in the retirement years; their health changes; and the varied activity patterns they adopt. Women and Retirement is a comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based review of the female retirement experience. It will be invaluable for courses on ageing and health within psychology, women’s studies, social work and sociology, and for use by practitioners in these fields.

Issues in Aging combines social, psychological, biological, and philosophical perspectives to present a multifaceted picture of aging. Novak illustrates both the problems and the opportunities that accompany older age. This text helps students understand the tremendous variability in aging and introduces them to careers working with older adults. This new edition reflects the continued changes in the way we age. The fourth edition has been updated to include emerging issues in aging. These include the prevalence of HIV/AIDs in later life, current research on mental potential in old age, the creation of age-friendly cities, and new options for end-of-life care. Each chapter begins with a set of learning objectives to guide students in their reading, and concludes with a list of main points, questions for discussion or study, suggested readings, and relevant web sites to consult. Each chapter also includes up-to-date charts and graphs as well as key terms to help students understand the issues presented. Break out boxes reveal the human side of aging through the stories of individuals in real life and in the media.

“Creative Retirement Planning” draws on Bernard Kelly’s 30 years of conversations with families who recognise that a man aged 65 has a probability of living to age 88, and a woman of the same age has a probability to reach age 91. Everyday concerns for the Four Pillars - Health, Family & Friends, Finances and a Zest for Living - are here interwoven into numerous stories containing wisdom and practical advice. You’ll journey along with his innovative discoveries about natural therapies, finding stimulation in later life, the advantages of moving to a college community, developing new friends and the mental and financial benefits of turning any hobby into a “profitable hobby”. You’ll share the author’s experiences of preparing for a successful retirement (whatever that means today) – including developing an urban farm on his suburban block – and how you can harvest all of that knowledge for yourself, whether you have already retired or are still in late career.

National pension systems face a range of tough social and economic demands and pressures. These are complex to navigate, especially in a twenty-first century world that has ushered in global uncertainty and pressing challenges - even threatening the planet’s very sustainability – with implications for pensions that policymakers, financial services providers and individuals themselves must address. This book probes, and unpacks, what pension systems aim to achieve, the uncertainties they face and how they are attempting to resolve them. Analysing pension provision from the systemic, political-economy and individual perspectives, it sets out and contextualises commonalities and differences in pension systems across the globe, looking at current developments in both public and private pension provision, structures and regulation. Moreover, the reader is encouraged to question how national pension systems can best serve their populations and ensure the ‘sustainability’ of later-life incomes in the light of today’s global pension challenges. Global Pension Challenges: Pensions, Saving and Retirement in the Twenty‐First Century is an essential read for business, finance and social-policy academics and students, those working in the pensions industry and in the areas of welfare reform and advocacy, as well as the general public wishing to know more about the retirement issues we will all face in the coming years.