A Simple Guide to Retirement: How to Make Retirement Work for You

(Hardback)

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This affirming, positive, and practical book will better prepare retirees and their families for the changes and challenges of retirement in an uncertain economic, social, and political climate. A Simple Guide to Retirement: How to Make Retirement Work for You is a book for older Americans planning for retirement. It is also for people who have left work before they were ready and are now experiencing anxiety, depression, and/or financial weakness in their new role as retirees. Written to be at once affirming, positive, and practical, the book covers all of the many topics that will help retirees better prepare themselves for a positive, fulfilling, and satisfying retirementbeginning with financial security. These topics include saving for retirement, working part time, staying healthy and fit, dealing with the emotional and financial burden of health care, cultivating optimism, and much more. Case examples and vignettes will help readers apply the principles to their own lives.

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Calling retirement 'the road less traveled' because it enables the pursuit of new paths, Glicken (Arizona State U.; Institute for Positive Growth) and Hass (an investment advisor in Arizona) cover the retirement decision process and financial, health, and social aspects for couples and singles. While acknowledging concerns about economic uncertainties and devoting a chapter to substance abuse in older adults, they present an overall upbeat outlook based on surveys about satisfaction with retirement. Chapters include an equation for calculating projected income and costs, references and resources. * Reference & Research Book News *

Author Bio

Morley D. Glicken is on the faculty at Arizona State University and is director of the Institute for Positive Growth: A Research, Treatment, and Training Institute in Prescott, AZ. Brian Haas is the president and portfolio manager for Haas Capital Management, LLC, a Prescott, AZ-based Registered Investment Advisor (www.haascap.com).