Challenges Women Face in Retirement Security (Retirement Issues, Plans, and Lifestyles Series)
This book focuses on women and retirement. Women aged 65 and over will account for a growing segment of the U.S. population over the next several decades. Despite increases in women’s workforce behaviour in the past 65 years, elderly women have persistently high rates of poverty. Thus, it is important to understand the differences between men’s… More
LIFE AFTER WORK: Redefining Retirement - A step-by-step guide to balancing your life and achieving bliss in the Wisdom Years
Whether you are planning to retire, newly retired, long retired, or wishing you never retired, this book offers insights into the retirement process. You will learn the phases of retirement and transitions required to overcome career losses…. More
A Peaceful Retirement (Fairacre)
Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.Having bid a last farewell to her pupils at Fairacre School, Miss Read settles down to what she hopes will be a relaxing retirement. It is not entirely so, of course. She finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, helping with church and school affairs, and offering… More
One Year in Retirement: And 25 Short Stories
“A Year in Retirement” is a “fictionalized memoir” covering the year after a 61-year old leaves his civil service job after 27 years. It depicts his experiences in dealing with the question: So you’re retired; what do you do now? It shows that some things change in retirement while others don’t. It shows that retirement can be a little scary, but that it can also be… More