Do you feel Trapped in Retirement? Are you ready to manage the changes in retirement that may come your way? This blog’s recent discussions of transition in retirement raise the question—are we ready to manage those changes in retirement. Before…

  Another Retirement Transition to Consider: Social Interaction  Did you know that isolation is as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day?  I knew excessive solitude was painful, but I never equated it with such physical consequences….

  Writing the article last week on retirement transition triggered some interesting thoughts on the sort of changes we might anticipate in this life stage. One transition I hadn’t given much thought to is the possibility of caring for my…

I just read an article by a favorite retirement author on the similarities of the Empty Nest Syndrome and Retirement. The article compared feelings of parents when their children leave home as young adults with those of retirement. For me,…