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How Retirement Was Invented

By Sarah Laskow — 2014

The earliest schemes for financial support in old age were pegged to life expectancy.

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Are You Afraid to Retire?

Recognize the emotional fear factors to make the leap.

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Sharon Jayson
2017
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Are You Ready for Retirement?

It’s never too soon to prepare for a well-earned stage in one’s life.

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Shoba Sreenivasan, Linda E. Weinberger
2019
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5 Retirees Find Purpose in Their Second Act Careers

AARP recently spent time with five retirees to learn how their post-retirement work is bringing meaning to their lives and making a difference in the world, even as the coronavirus pandemic rages. Here are their stories.

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Kerry Hannon
2020
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8 Tips for Adjusting to Retirement

This new phase of your life can be a little difficult to navigate at first.

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Amy Morin
2020
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Forced Retirement: What Is It and What Can You Do About It?

When you’re forced to retire, the ending of your employment is not directly of your choosing and you are retiring earlier than you expected. You are not alone!

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Phyllis Diamond
2019
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Retiring Minds Want to Know

What’s the key to a smooth retirement? Tend to your psychological portfolio as much as your financial one, researchers say.

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Jamie Chamberlin
2014
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4 Secrets to Finding Purpose and Community After Retirement

Structure and community are things you may be surprised to miss.

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Andrea Brandt
2019
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Why the Concept of Retirement Is Destructive and Needs to Be Replaced

As long as we keep using the word retirement or any derivative such as “the new retirement,” that whiff of withdrawal, of closure, of endings will linger. And so will visions of what the word evoked a generation ago.

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Prudy Gourguechon
2018
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What ‘Retirement’ Means Now

The vision of life after 65 for American workers has changed. So has what it takes to make it all happen.

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Eilene Zimmerman
2019
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You’re Likely to Live Longer If You Retire After 65

When they looked at the sample of 2,956 people who had begun participating in the study in 1992 and retired by 2010, the researchers found that the majority had retired around age 65. But a statistical analysis showed that when people retired at age 66 instead, their mortality rates dropped by 11%.

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Nicole Torres
2016
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