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Offers the big picture of what to expect, how to manage your time, legal affairs, new career, or part-time employment after full, early or partial retirement
Manpower Education Institute celebrates its 27th Anniversary Edition of Ready or Not with the 2000 edition of Ready or Not, the successful retirement planning book which helps make the retirement years the most rewarding time of your life.
This user-friendly book, updated each year, emphasizes the importance of planning for the future and helps you to prepare now for a fulfilling and enjoyable retirement. Ready or Not offers the big picture of what to expect, how to manage your time, legal affairs, new career, or part-time employment after full, early or partial retirement.
Ready or Not has 15 separate chapters covering such topics as financial planning, Social Security, legal matters, health, consumer education, post-retirement earning, volunteer efforts, where to live, and grandparenting, while covering the spectrum of other concerns for those planning for their years in retirement. Also important is the hotline information, listing many toll free numbers to call for support about some of the issues affecting retirees. Points of emphasis are boxed and highlighted throughout the book.
Manpower Education Institute, a non-profit foundation chartered by The Board of Regents of the State University of New York, publishes this invaluable resource for making sound retirement decisions and offers creative suggestions for remaining active, involved and energetic in the years to follow.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
The Time of Your Life Today, more than ever before, "aging" is an opportunity, not a problem. Americans in general are living longer, healthier, more active lives. As you reach this plateau, you have the chance to pursue your happiness... without the responsibility or demands of work and family. And you have the energy and resources to achieve personal goals of travel, hobbies, education.
Have you prepared yourself for this new opportunity? This book is designed to help you look clearly and positively at the changes and decisions of retirement. From Financial Planning to Health to Family Matters, or a new job, full or part-time, we address clearly and directly the financial, physical and emotional concerns you may have had about retirement.
An Aging Nation The first thing to know about "aging" in America is that "everybody's doing it." The first of the 76 million Baby Boomers turned 50 in 1996. Between now and 2030, the aged will become a dominant segment of America's population.
People are living longer than ever before. In 1900, average life expectancy was 50 years. In 1960, the average 65-year-old American could expect to live another 18 years. In 1995, this average rose to 17.4 years beyond age 65. Today, the average length of retirement beyond 65 is 15.8 years for men, 20.2 years for women.
Better health care, nutrition awareness, shorter work weeks, higher standard of living, earlier retirement... all have contributed to longer, more vibrant lives, affirming Browning's lines, "Come grow old with me, the best is yet to come."
Sooner or Later You may be reading this book and saying "I will not be retiring for sometime in the future." Think again. With downsizing, early retirement programs, buyouts, more and more of us are facing a choice sooner than anticipated.
Much of the information covered in Ready or Not is relevant at all ages and stages at work... and, as the title suggests, is intended to make you aware of the need to start planning for your future today.
Sooner or Later Ready or Not is designed to help you make your future years satisfying, enriching and comfortable. Each chapter deals with issues of importance. Experts and professionals have contributed specific, detailed information in clear, concise language that will answer your questions about retirement.
Checklists and charts make it easy to pinpoint areas of major concern or interest to you. Ready or Not can be your guide to making the most of what can be the best years of your life; years in which you can truly appreciate your family, your friends, travel, hobbies, or just "giving back" to your community through volunteering. In these pages Ready or Not covers the following subjects:
* Financial Planning * Social Security * Legal Matters * Consumer Education * Living Longer and Better * Health Insurance * Housing and Living * Earning Money * Leisure * Volunteer * Keep Up to Date * Retire Early or Later * Women in Retirement * Family Matters
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