When We're 64: Your Guide to a Great Later Life

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The essential guide to making sure you have a fabulous later life.

Youre likely to live longer than you think. Todays fifty-year olds could have an astounding 36 or more years of life. Whats your dream life for your later years

When Were 64 is a friendly, practical guide to preparing for what could be the best years of your life - from the essentials on work and how to fund retirement, to volunteering, where to live and what kind of housing youll need. It covers how to stay healthy and still live a full life if you get a health condition and reveals how your attitude to ageing could actually increase your lifespan. There are sections on relationships with family and friends, as well as caring for older relatives and how to tackle loneliness.

Packed with expert advice and new evidence and tips on how to age well, this route map will help you plan and prepare for the future.

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An easy to read excellent guide, full of practical advice to help prepare us for a happy and healthy older age. -- Diana Moran * Green Goddess *
A very important book for the next phase in peoples lives -- Professor Sir Muir Gray
This uplifting playbook is essential preparation for later life. Grounded in the latest research, it guides us through all the practical steps needed to face the future positively and thats the key to health and happiness in our sixties and beyond. -- Celia Dodd * author of Not Fade Away *
A new stage of life is emerging as longer lives give us extra years between middle age and old age. When Were 64 provides a guide to navigating the new opportunities that lie ahead. -- Andrew Scott * co-author of The 100-Year Life *
An indispensable book by a leading anti-ageing expert * Mail on Sunday *
An easy-to-read guide to a great later life, including advice to follow (from your 50s) to keep healthy and happy. * Woman's Weekly *
This cheery book is a practical guide to making later life look and feel fab. It covers a range of topics from pensions and volunteering, to housing and loneliness. If you're nervous about the coming years for you or a loved one prepare to feel fully reassured. * Top Sante *
A brilliant, friendly, practical guide to a better later life. -- Aggie MacKenzie * My Weekly *
The ultimate practical guide to later life filled with expert advice and new evidence and tips on how to age well, an eminently readable, light-hearted look at how to plan and prepare for what could be the best years of your life * Celebrity Angels *

Author Bio

Louise Ansari is Director of Communications at the Centre for Ageing Better an organisation dedicated to helping everyone enjoy a good later life. She loves gardening, travel, music and cooking. Shes in her 50s and plans to enjoy every year to come!