Baby Boomer Retirement
Cruising through the Generations The last of the Baby Boomers are still marching into retirement, and the oldest of that group are already beyond the traditional retirement of 65 by a decade this year. The average length of retirement, according to the U.S. Census...
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How To Avoid Boredom
The "B" Word I can feel it growing. It’s consuming. It’s affecting my mental state. I can’t look at anything. It’s happened. It’s official. I’m bored. The B word. Boredom can easily seep into your everyday experience. The site has been running for a few months...
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Why Buy When You Can Lease?
Do You Really Need to Buy All That Stuff? Why buy when you can lease? That’s a rhetorical question you hear all the time— mostly from people who lease most everything they own. Okay, so they don’t own any of those things, but it just shows you the mindset of those of...
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Support For Your Spiritual Pillar
A Story That Needs To Be Told One of the Pillars of the Designed Retirements® plan is Spiritual. It’s an extremely important aspect of your retirement life since, as we age, we encounter unforeseen circumstances that test us and require an internal strength. It...
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Music of The Past and Retirees of Today
Retirees Rocking through the Ages When it comes to the favorite music of those of us beyond retirement age, we tend to live in the past with classic rock and oldies from when we were young and calling the shots on what songs made it to the Top 40. It seems our popular...
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Memory Loss With Age
Oh, Those Aging Memories! Advances in cognitive health show that we can prolong memory as we age, but memory loss is still part of the aging process. It’s like keeping physically fit. You have to work at it. And yet, the brain, like the body, will eventually...
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Understanding Your Retirement
Old or Retired? There’s an Acronym for You Do you know your aging acronyms, and we’re not talking about acronyms that are past their prime? The AARP has a repository of these abbreviated agencies and programs that it calls “Acronyms in Aging.” If you are 50 or older,...
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Keeping Your Brain Sharp After Retirement
Triumphing over the Aging Brain One of the worries of embarking into retirement is often unvoiced, because it is too personal, closely tied to aging and diminishing cognitive abilities. The aging brain is susceptible to impending senility, even Alzheimer’s, and that...
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Downsizing In Retirement: Adjusting Family Traditions
We recently downsized from a house that had a good deal of running room inside and out for the kids and the grandkids when they would come visit. It was something we always took for granted – space to run, areas to play and one of our favorite family traditions was...
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Why Turning Seventy Is No Big Deal
Turning Seventy? Don't Panic! Now that the front line of Baby Boomers has achieved septuagenarian status, the fact that living to the age of seventy, which used to be an accomplishment, has become rather ordinary and mundane. It turns out that seventy is the new...
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Where It All Started
Where It All Started-Goals Realized I love music. I love it in the morning, afternoon, evening, any time the mood hits me. It’s such a large part of my life and always will be. I grew up on rock and roll and it has greatly influenced my life from friends to...
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Working After Retirement
Retirees Working: Job Market’s Hottest Prospects The problem for many retirees, after decades of the day-to-day commitment to the demands of their working lives, is adjusting to what once seemed like best of outcomes: doing what you want to do for the rest of your...
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Retirement: Spending the Right Time with Family
Stepping back You know how important family is. You see it on TV, hear about it in songs, and feel it every time you are with those that are close to you. You want to make the most of every opportunity when there are times that family or those that are close to you...
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Risks After Retirement
Risks Are Worth Taking— and Managing Living is a risky business and risk increases as you get older. It’s just a fact of life, and those of us at the threshold of our golden years realize dangers lurk in places we’ve never considered before. For instance, at 65 the...
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