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5 New Realities of Retirement – US News

Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Retirement

My experience has been that the happiest and healthiest retirees that I know find ways to stay socially and emotionally engaged in life all around them. For some, working or scheduled volunteering forces them to do this. Worth the read. -Jeff

Our parents were able to retire and collect full Social Security at age 65. Most baby boomers have to wait until 66. People born after 1959 have to wait even longer – until age 67 – before reaching what Social Security defines as “full retirement age.” And while the younger generations can still start collecting Social Security as early as 62, they will suffer a bigger penalty – a 30 percent cut to their full benefit, rather than 20 percent for those eligible under the old 65-year-old rule.

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Life lessons from a life-affirming heart attack

Life lessons from a life-affirming heart attack

Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Retirement

Life lessons from a life-affirming heart attackYou can’t judge the real impact of a life-changing event until you’ve lived some life afterwards. Only then can you take stock and measure the size of and commitment to the change.

Five years ago last week, I suffered a heart attack, caused when a building clot broke free, floated downstream until it got stuck, and created a 100% blockage in the artery known by cardiologists as “the widowmaker.”

The changes I expected in the immediate aftermath and a year after the event are, in some respects, different from the reality I live with today. (Read the column I wrote upon first returning to work) , and the column I wrote a year later.)

But life itself is a series of life-altering events. For example, a divorce completed early this year — after 30 years of marriage — was every bit as unexpected as the heart attack; it just wasn’t as […]

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The Old Strategies Retirees Need to Unlearn – The Experts – WSJ

Health & Fitness, Lifestyle

Interesting read about how many of us have to learn to “shed our skins” to really, truly enjoy retirement. -jrs

SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT: Many of us in our third chapters, who leave the well-worn, highly ritualized paths of our careers—where we have enjoyed status and standing, authority and expertise—to pursue new adventures, often find that part of making a successful transition requires that we explore new ways of learning.We discover, in fact, that the processes and products of our learning that assured our academic success and that advanced our careers can inhibit our development and adventurousness as older adults.In my interviews with dozens of women and men between the ages of 50 and 75 who were embarking on new vocations and avocations after retiring, I was struck by the contrasts and contradictions that they drew bet

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