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Books on retirement flood the bookstores. It is easy to find books on saving for retirement and financial planning, but this list is mostly comprised of books that address the psychological, social and emotional aspects of this major life change. This next new generation of "Baby Boomer" retirees is younger, healthier, and wealthier than their parents generation. Their retirements can mean new opportunities, freedom. and choice. "What do I want for the rest of my life?" and "Will it bring pleasure and peace?" are the questions in the focus of this booklist.
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America's 100 Best Places to Retire This book blends highly readable personal accounts of great retirement spots with essential statistics on climate, cost of living, taxes, housing costs, crime rates, and health care. 100 maps. 2007 |
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Mapping Your Retirement: A Personal Guide to Maintaining Your Health, Managing Your Money, and Living Well Here is your first book to read or purchase! This is a fantastic workbook for helping you decide what you really want to do with the rest of your life. Not so fast! It's not about spending money, traveling or lying in a hammock, but a book to help you clarify your plan to find meaning and decide where to start. The workbook pages, questions and answers, lists, advice and resources will help you prepare what you need to learn and do, devise a plan, discuss with others and take action. 2007 Appears on the following book lists:  Thinking of Moving or Retiring? |
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Anthony, Mitch. The New Retirementality : Planning Your Life and Living Your Dreams-- at Any Age You Want Mitch Anthony has presented a new look away from the traditional vision of retirement - beyond golf, the motorhome and a retirement community. In his historical discussion about retirement in earlier times and the myths about aging and decline, retirement was a rest from our lifetime of hard labors. Today, we might enjoy more than 30 years or longer. The author believes we must "already do what we love to do-long before we retire to do what we love." 2006 Appears on the following book lists: Thinking of Moving or Retiring? |
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Borchard, David C. The Joy of Retirement : Finding Happiness Freedom and the Life You've Always Wanted Boomers today are changing the meaning retirement to mean a new freedom to manage one's time and life. It is a time to reinvent yourself, rejuvenate your dreams, craft your future and rediscover your passions. This book provides a self-guided process including; assessments for self identity and talents, transitions to be made, imagination for new roles and maintaining vitality. 2008 |
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Corbett, David D. Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50 Retirement can be a transition to a new kind thinking and living than it has been in the traditional sense. Portfolio Life, is a step-by-step guide to how to flourish after your job or career end. Suggestions and exercises are provided to help you adopt new ways to channel your knowledge, energy and time to the goals and purposes that make your life journey deeply fulfilling. 2007 |
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Fraunfelder, Frederick T. Retirement Rx : the Retirement Docs' Proven Prescription for Living a Happy Fulfilling Rest of Your Life Geriatric doctors wanted to identify the skills, habits and characteristics associated with people who they observed had retired successfully and seemed well-adjusted. They concluded that there are four phases and eight traits of highly successful retirees. The "Docs' Quiz" is in the book. 2008 |
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Rentsch, Gail Smart Women Don't Retire--they Break Free : from Working Full-time to Living Full-time Author suggests that women approaching reitrement do so differently than men. She maintains that women today had more choices in life than earlier generations of women. That may reshape the ways in which they conceive the idea of retirement, how they reassess who they are now and explore what they want to do. 2008 |
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Sundstrom, Eric D. My Next Phase: The Personality-based Guide to Your Best Retirement Learn if you a ready to retire by taking the "up-4-retirement" quiz to assess your personality style, which holds the key to your success in retirement. Creative quizzes, exercises and activities help to identify and offer options for your social, stress, outlook, information, decision making and planning styles. 2007 Appears on the following book lists: Thinking of Moving or Retiring? |
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Schlossberg, Nancy K. Retire Smart, Retire Happy: Finding Your True Path in Life Schlossberg is a counseling psychologist who addresses some of the more hidden psychological concerns about the retirement transition. She characterizes the retirees she counsels as "adventurers", "searchers", "retreaters", and "easy gliders" in the ways they restructure their lives. She notes that the biggest changes can come in our feelings about our "personal value" and "social capital" in the absence of daily contact and companionship of colleagues and in "power balancing" relationships with spouses and children. 2004 Appears on the following book lists: Aging Well |
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Vandervelde, Maryanne Retirement for Two "Everything you need to know to thrive together as long as you both shall live." Retirement for Two, is not about money and finance, but about the pleasures and pitfalls around this major life change. Topics include discussions about: emotional implications and psychological struggles, money issues, relationship "stuff", personal identity, work, time management, love, health, lifestyle choices, new opportunities, and what you want for the rest of your life. c2004 |
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Cantor, Dorothy W What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?: Starting the Next Chapter of Your Life Psychologist Cantor proves that later life can be rich and satsifying and that there is more to life than work and material security. The author suggest practical tools to help you make major decisions to plan for the next part of life. She demonstrates ways to take personal inventory of your skills, talents, interests and wishes and shows how to put that plan to work in your retirement years. c2000 |
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Stone, Marika Too Young to Retire: 101 Ways to Start the Rest of Your Life Blaze your own trail and choose a new adventure. Act on your deepest passion, pursue your happiness, you can't make a mistake. This book will help you discover the path through money concerns, health issues, taking a personal inventory of your childhood dreams, friends, assets, talents, skills and accomplisments. 2004 Appears on the following book lists: Aging Well |
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Wheeler, Eugenie G. The Time of Your Life: The Best of Genie Wheeler's Columns On Aging Issues Eugenie Wheeler's columns in the Ventura County STAR (Scripps-Howard Newspapers) have attracted a wide readership in the cities of Ventura County, California, for fourteen years. She offers sage advice and opinions, with humor. Genie writes with first-hand knowledge of ways to enjoy and live successfully in later years. Book jacket. 2005 |
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