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Tag Archives: retirement
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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Success, Then Poverty: William McPherson’s Story
I recently wrote a post that alluded to the struggles of the working poor after they reach retirement age. It’s not just the working poor that spend their last years mired in financial difficulties, though. Consider the lot of a Pulitzer-winning … Continue reading
Posted in Body, Culture
Tagged elderly, older adults, poverty, retirement, William McPherson
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Retiring Among the Like-Minded…Or Not
Ever since switching from full time to part time employment I’ve been thinking about what constitutes a good retirement. I’m sometimes surprised by who has something to say about the issue. Jack Dickey, a 24-year-old writing for Time magazine, put … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Relationships
Tagged aging, diversity, elderly, older adults, poverty, retirement, retirement communities
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Retirement: “Do we have to do what we want to again today?”
I’ve recently been reading Learn to Grow Old, published in 1971 by Swiss physician Paul Tournier. Dr. Tournier practiced what he called the medicine of the person, an integrative approach to care of body, mind, and spirit that now would … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Psyche
Tagged aging, elderly, older adults, Paul Tournier, retirement, successful aging
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Retirement Leisure and the Protestant Work Ethic
I’ve written before about retirement and the leisure ideal. I described how in the middle of the 20th century government and business in the U.S. wished to get older workers out of the workforce to make way for younger workers. … Continue reading
Olderhood.com
I recently became a contributing writer for olderhood.com. I’ve been following their blog for some time, and have found that their contributors offer interesting perspectives on aging and retirement. Bill Storie, the founder, is of Scottish origin but lives in Bermuda, … Continue reading
The Two Phases of Retirement
Work and leisure patterns late in life are changing. The ideal of taking full retirement in order to live a life of leisure is giving way to phenomena such as partial retirement, active retirement, or, as I labeled what I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Psyche
Tagged aging, baby boomers, meaning, older adults, retirement, retirement income, seniors, Steve Vernon
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Hi, I’m Bob and I’m Redeployed
Recently, as part of a series of posts about leisure and retirement, I relayed that today’s older adults are less likely than those in the previous generation or two to quit working entirely, and those who do quit working or switch to … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Psyche
Tagged aging, baby boomers, change, elderly parents, older adults, older workers, retirement, semi-retirement
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If We No Longer Retire, What Will We Do When We Get Old?
I’ve been writing about retirement and leisure. First, I considered the fact that the majority of older workers don’t have the money to permit them to totally leave the workforce. I then looked at the history of retirement, discovering that … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Psyche
Tagged aging, baby boomers, elderly, leisure, older adults, older workers, purpose, retirement, seniors
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The History of Retirement
In an earlier post, I discussed the failure of most workers in the US to save for retirement, with the result that many will continue working longer than the previous generation of older adults. To put this change regarding the timing of … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, elderly, leisure, older adults, retirement, retirement age, Social Security
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Beyond Halfway 