Retirement

The idea of kicking back with “nothin’ to do” in retirement sounds fabulous in young adulthood or middle age when life can feel overloaded, so it comes as something of a surprise that a major complaint about retirement is having “nothin’ to do.”

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column about the growing tribe of people who value experiences over security in their lives. But there is something that I didn’t say then that I want to emphasize: You don’t necessarily have to trade experience and financial security off against each other.

Read the entire article: A Life Full of Experiences May Not Mean Less Financial Security – Behavior Gap

According to a recently released study conducted by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, 2.9 million older workers ages 55-70 have left the labor force since March, putting these workers “at risk of having to retire involuntarily due to increased health risks coupled with decreased job prospects.”

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The pandemic has forced many families to make a difficult choice: Should elderly parents stay in retirement communities or nursing homes, or should they be brought to live at home?

Suddenly having mom or dad move in after 50 years living separately may not seem like an ideal situation for everyone’s privacy and sanity. But, by some estimates, more than 40% of deaths from Covid-19 have been of people in nursing homes or residential-living facilities for the elderly.

Faced with a difficult choice, families are landing on an alternate solution: Put up a separate, tiny house in their backyard.

Read the entire article: To Escape Covid-19, Grandma’s Living in the Backyard – Articles – Advisor Perspectives

It was early August when Dorothy Pollack — who is 103 years old — decided there was an item she needed to check off her bucket list. She wanted to get a frog tattoo.

Pollack, of Holton, Mich., was taking a car ride with her grandson’s girlfriend, Teresa Jones, earlier this month when she suddenly blurted out:“Teresa, I really think that I need a tattoo,” Jones recalled her saying. “How about if we go do it?”

“What do you say to something like that? I was shocked,” said Jones, 56, who

Read the entire article: This 103-year-old woman just crossed an item off her bucket list: A tattoo – The Washington Post