Passages of Retirement: Personal Histories of Struggle and Success

Passages of Retirement: Personal Histories of Struggle and Success

by Richard Prentis
Passages of Retirement: Personal Histories of Struggle and Success

Passages of Retirement: Personal Histories of Struggle and Success

by Richard Prentis

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Overview

This innovative volume presents the personal aspects of retirement—the feelings, pleasures, and problems of this life event, expressed in the words of retirees. The author considers work patterns prior to retirement, the decision-making process itself, and the aftermath of the decision to retire. This passage of worker to retiree addresses concerns and questions that are important to many of those about to retire: how working conditions and other factors can affect the decision to retire; problems of a workaholic; how to handle leisure interests on a full-time basis; widowhood and retirement; depression; retirement insurance; mandatory retirement; volunteer work; and many other topics.

The retirees include men and women who are blue- and white-collar workers, hourly paid or salaried: CEO of a major international corporation; social worker; college instructor; dentist; jourbanalist; production controller in manufacturing; automobile dealer. Thus readers can easily identify with others who have made this jourbaney before them and share their experiences, becoming more knowledgeable and more confident about their futures.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313284939
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/30/1992
Series: Contributions to the Study of Aging , #23
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile: 1050L (what's this?)

About the Author

RICHARD S. PRENTIS is an associate at the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University. He is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the Michigan Society of Gerontology, and he has written several articles about retirement.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Decision
On the Road to Retirement . . .
The Retirement Decision
The Trauma of Early Mandatory Retirement
The Inevitability of Retirement
Considerations of an Early Retirement Offer
Benefits of Voluntary Retirement
Avoidance of a Retirement Decision
Option of 30 Years and Out
Rabbinical Retirement
Early Retirement Offers
Retirement Blues
Work versus Retirement
The Meaning of Work and Retirement
Conflict of Work and Retirement
The Friendship of Fellow Workers
Problems of a Workaholic
Part-Time Work—Transition to Retirement
A Change in Schedules
Value of Part-Time Work
Thoughts on Aging
Marriage
Marriage and Retirement
Spousal Problems in Retirement
Married Women and Retirement
Spousal Relationships
Leisure—A Cause for Marital Discord
Spousal Communication in Retirement
Spousal Retirement
Retirement Planning
Planning for Retirement
Planning for the Final Years
Financial Problems and Retirement Planning
The Pressure of Inflation
Widowhood and Retirement
Benefits of Prior Planning
Relocation in Retirement
Life Style Changes
Retirement Insurance
Leisure
Leisure Activities in Retirement
Satisfaction with Leisure Activities
Consideration of Retirement Activities
Advantages of Pre-Retirement Interests
The Search for Meaningful Interests
Appreciation of Freedom in Retirement
Thoughts on a Second Career
Volunteering
My Story . . .
Retirement Revisited
References
Index

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