Making Sense of Retirement — 86 Great Movies About Retirement and Aging — Updated List!
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Category: Celebrating Retirement
Purposeful Ideas for Retirees Seeking a Second Career or a Big Life Change
Lots of people “retire” to a whole new second career or a very different way of life. In fact, for the majority of retirees, retirement no longer means pursuing a life of leisure. Retirees today are finding new purpose for their “golden years.” Some people want to change their life completely. Others just want a…
3 Mental Blocks Preventing Your Secure Retirement
There are all kinds of things we say we want to do, but very often we don’t get them done. For example, maybe you want to exercise more, read “War and Peace,” or develop an adequate plan for a secure financial future… but are you actually succeeding? Apparently, it is not enough to want to…
65 Retirement Tips for a Healthy, Wealthy and Happy Retirement!
If you want to have a good retirement, you need to figure out what that means to you. Do some life planning for retirement, set goals and use these retirement tips to create a plan that allows you to achieve exactly what you want. What do most of us want? It is usually pretty simple,…
Retirement Stories: Cancer’s Demise? How Meaning Can Be Found in Odd Places
What you do in retirement can sometimes be surprising. What follows are some important, wild or wacky recent retirement stories meant to inform and inspire you. Purpose Can Be Found in Odd (Though Heartwarming) Endeavors In 2016, at over the age of 100, Alfred Date was Australia’s oldest living man. He found his purpose in…
Retirement Stories: Why Your Home Won’t Be Worth What You Think, Last Minute Gift Ideas and More News
Here is the most recent round up of retirement related stories from around the internet: the latest wild, wacky, profound, exciting or heartwarming news about retirement and aging. In 10 Years Will Your Home Be Worth What It Is Now? A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported that by 2037, one quarter of…
Retirement Gifts: Find Thoughtful and Funny Retirement Gift Ideas
There are so many great retirement gift ideas. Browse this list for meaningful, funny and thoughtful retirement gifts. Retirement is a Big Deal… So, Find the Best Retirement Gift Of all the life transitions that merit gifts — graduation, marriage and the birth of a baby — retirement might be the most significant change and…
Retirement Stories: The Latest, Wild, Wacky, Profound and Heartwarming News About Retirement and Aging
We are starting a running list of retirement related stories from around the internet: the latest, wild, wacky, profound, exciting or heartwarming news about retirement and aging. Do you have a retirement story you think belongs here? Email us! Aging is… Optional? David Sinclair is a Harvard professor who made Time Magazine’s list of of…
20 Great Retirement Travel Ideas: Make the Most Popular Retirement Pursuit Your Reality
According to surveys of NewRetirement users, travel after retirement is clearly the most popular and desired pursuit for this phase of life. From day trips by car to round the world journeys, retirees have wanderlust! What are your retirement travel plans? A full 75% of users of NewRetirement’s award winning Retirement Planner mention travel as…
Retirement Survival Pack: Don’t Leave Work Without It!
Retirement can be hard. Sure, some people slide right into it with no problem at all. Others are bored at best and depressed at worst. It is not the financial pressure that is usually the problem. Issues usually come from the fact that work often provides the emotional, mental and social stimuli that you need…
Retirement Depression: 9 Tips for Combating this Very Common Syndrome
Retirement depression — feeling sad or lacking energy and focus after retiring — is surprisingly common. A study published in the Journal of Population Ageing found that those who were retired were about twice as likely to report feeling symptoms of depression than those who were still working. And, research from the London-based Institute of…
What is Another Word for Retirement? There Has Got to Be Something Better!
I think we can all agree. We desperately need another word for retirement. Retirement is a word that we use to roughly define a period of life after work. But this word is imprecise at best and — at worst — really flat out wrong about this phase of life. I mean, some of us…
Great Retirement Advice from the Best Graduation Speeches
Graduation and retirement are arguably the two biggest life transitions anyone will ever experience. With both rites of passage, everything about your daily experience changes in the short term and your goals for the future become more far sighted and poignant. Therefore, we wondered if perhaps retirees had anything to learn from the wisdom of…
Retirement Reinvention: Hold Steady or Become a New You?
Retirement reinvention!?! Maybe you want nothing to change once you retire, or maybe you’re anxious for that next new phase and what it could bring. Retirement isn’t one idea, and it’s definitely not static. It’s just the next stage. And with Americans living much longer than ever before, it can last more than 20 years.…
120 Big Ideas for What to Do in Retirement
You’ve probably spent at least a little time thinking about what to do in retirement. How will you fill your days? Where will you go? What will you do? With whom will you spend time?In retirement, you likely have more options for how to spend your time than ever before. And, you certainly don’t have…
What is Your Retirement Manifesto?
A manifesto is a declaration of an individual or group’s intentions and motivations. Most big life events involve some kind of manifesto — whether you call it that or not. Contracts, wedding vows, employment agreements are all declarations of your intent. Retirement is actually an ideal time to write a manifesto. Retirement is your time…
Winter Got You Down? Make a Sunnier Climate a Retirement Reality
Rain. Snow. Sleet. Cold. Once the coziness of winter holidays passes, dark weather can weigh heavily on our psyches. However, when you retire, you have more freedom to seek and enjoy sunnier or more temperate climates. What’s holding you back? Here are nine tips, tricks and things to consider when thinking about a warmer location…
Is Your Future Bigger Than Your Past? The Surprising Age When Happiness Peaks
You probably looked at your parents’ and grandparents’ retirement as times of slowing down. But, if you are in your 50s, 60s and even 70s or 80s, I am willing to bet that is not how you feel about your own future. Now — the age of retirement — is an exciting time to restart…
Celebrate Retirement With These Retirement Party Ideas!
One of the best ways to celebrate retirement is with a retirement party. Retirement is a huge milestone and a great reason to celebrate. Throw a party for yourself, get a friend to do it for you. Celebrate a friend or family member with the best party planning ever! The Big Takeaways… When planning someone’s…
Getting Old: Ideas for Delaying the Onset, Reasons to Look Forward to It and Ways to Prepare
Getting old is not all fun and games. However, it is not nearly as dismal as you might think, assuming you follow a few guidelines. Furthermore, it can actually be enormously beneficial for you to think about growing old. Contemplating your future as an older person can: Help you create a better plan and make…
The Top Retirement Resolutions for Health, Wealth and Happiness in 2018
It is that time of year. Time to set goals and set a resolution for 2018. Here are some retirement resolution ideas that address wealth, health and happiness. Choose one or something from each category. Top Financial Retirement Resolutions? Find Wealth! It may come as no surprise, but saving more and saving more for retirement…
5 Things No One Tells You About Retirement That You Need to Know
The plan seems simple: work until age 65 and then retire and enjoy the good life: golfing, travel, gardening, being a grandparent, and sleeping in. This may be what you’ve been looking forward to for the last forty or so years, but you could be in for some big surprises. There are quite a few…
Retirement Travel Trends and Tips for Funding Your Wanderlust
Do you dream of retirement travel? Here’s a riddle for you: Question: What is the one thing you can buy in retirement that will make you richer, not poorer? Answer: Retirement travel. Whether you are planning a weekend trip to visit family or around the world expedition, travel enriches our lives. And travel is what…
Be Thankful As You Near Retirement — It Improves Health and Happiness
Whether you have saved enough money to feel secure about retirement or not… There is still plenty to be thankful for. Feel grateful. It gets easier as you age and it improves your health. In fact, as you get older, your ability to feel grateful also increases. Research indicates that as you get older, gratitude…
Oldest Olympians at the 2016 Games in Rio
Think Olympic glory is behind you? You might be surprised by the ages of the oldest Olympians. There are at least a handful of Olympians in their sixties competing in Rio this year. However, they are not breaking any records. Olympic athletes have been getting relatively younger — not older. The oldest Olympic athlete in…