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Tag Archives: retirement
Seniors Without Savings
I’ve written previously about the difficulties faced by older adults who haven’t saved for retirement. For example, in this post from 2013 I wrote about the large numbers of Americans who will either have to delay retirement or work during … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Resources
Tagged affordable housing, aging, elderly, older adults, poverty, retirement
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Relocating to a Retirement Community: A New Life
I wrote recently about the first part of Richard L. Morgan’s book Settling In: My First Year in a Retirement Community. Morgan was initially enthusiastic about moving to a retirement community near his daughter, but after a month or so … Continue reading
Posted in Psyche, Relationships
Tagged aging, dementia, discernment, elderly, faith, independent living, nursing homes, older adults, purpose, retirement
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Getting Ready to Retire: Finding Yourself
Next Avenue recently published an article by Bart Astor, a writer specializing in life transitions, titled “When will you be ready to call it quits?” After talking to numerous retirees, Astor concluded that the following factors played into their decisions … Continue reading
When Time Flies. When It Doesn’t.
Time is measured according to physical events of a cyclical nature–the earth circling the sun or turning on its axis, the phases of the moon, or the electronic transitions of certain atoms. Time matters to us, but it isn’t these physical … Continue reading
Posted in Psyche
Tagged aging, cancer, coping, illness, maturity, older adults, retirement, stress, waiting
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Identity, Purpose, and Belonging in Retirement
Older workers preparing for retirement (or those, like me, part way through the process) deal not only with logistics and practical questions, but also with questions regarding how to live our lives. Three sets of issues that retirees face–issues of … Continue reading
Posted in Psyche, Relationships
Tagged adulthood, aging, elderly, identity, retirement, seniors, values
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Amazing Love
I recently learned of the death of Robertson McQuilkin, former president of Columbia Bible College and Seminary (now Columbia International University). He resigned from his post in 1990 to care fulltime for his wife, Muriel, who had Alzheimer’s. He was … Continue reading
Posted in caregiving
Tagged aging, Alzheimer's, dementia, purpose, retirement, Robertson McQuilkin
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Doing, Being, and the Flu
There is doing. . . and there is being. Sometimes we are in the doing mode. There are checklists of things to accomplish, requirements someone expects us to meet. We keep our noses to the grindstone, our eyes on the … Continue reading
Posted in Body, Psyche
Tagged adulthood, aging, Bill Thomas, elderly, older adults, retirement, sickness, work
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Friendships: Who Stays and Who Goes
I wrote earlier about how friendships change over the years. After our children leave home and we retire (or just work less), most of us have more time to spend with friends. When we reach that point, some of us reconnect … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged adulthood, aging, friends, friendship, older adults, reconnecting, retirement
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Simplification of Status
This is part of a series of posts on simplification in late adulthood. For some context on the concept of simplification, consult a previous post in the series. In this post I’ll focus on simplification of status, especially on the way theologian Lewis Joseph … Continue reading
Posted in Psyche
Tagged aging, elderly, Gerald Stein, identity, Lewis Joseph Sherrill, older adults, purpose, retirement, work
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Retirement Leisure vs. Sabbath Rest
I wrote a few months ago about leisure in retirement, suggesting that one benefit of leisure is to remind us that the value of human life isn’t measured solely by the yardstick of productivity. In this post, I will compare leisure with something else that involves … Continue reading
Posted in Spirit
Tagged aging, Christianity, faith, God, leisure, older adults, retirement, Sabbath, seniors
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Beyond Halfway 