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How Do You Know You’re Ready For Retirement? It’s Not Just The Finances
How Do You Know You’re Ready For Retirement? It’s Not Just The Finances An intriguing find once emerged from a RAND Corp. survey on Americans and their working conditions. It turned out that 40 percent of employees 65 and older had previously retired, but something lured them back to the working world. In some cases, financial troubles might have been the cause. But often the reason is that people neglect an important component in their retirement planning. They don’t think about what they will do with their extra time, or how they will give their life the meaning and purpose work provided, says Patti Hart, co-author with her husband, Milledge,…
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Retirement Brings With It Extra Time
Retirement Brings With It Extra Time; Here is How To Make The Best Of That Time. Singer Jim Croce longed to put time in a bottle. Retirees aren’t always certain what it is they long to do with time, but one day they stop working and find they have a barrelful of it. “People often are so focused on making sure they are financially ready to retire that they forget to plan for what they want to do in retirement,” says Patti Hart, co-author with her husband, Milledge, of The Resolutionist: Welcome to the Anti-Retirement Movement. “And they may have more time to fill than they realize. Life expectancy has grown,…
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living with Alzheimer’s & Other Dementias:
I am conducting a review for Chicken Soup for the Soul as I received Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living with Alzheimer’s & Other Dementias: 101 Stories of Caregiving, Coping, and Compassion in exchange for a review although the thoughts in the report are all mine and mine alone. As a child, I remember growing up and my grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and ending up in a Nursing Home. Once this happened my grandfather didn’t recognize anyone. I can still see my dad standing by his bed just looking at him not knowing what to say. One day my dad wanted to take my grandfather out for Strawberry Ice Cream. When we…
Living a simple lifestyle from the front porch
