Retiring Lives

by Carnell, Eileen; Lodge, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780854738489
• ISBN10: 0854738487
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

Retiring is a challenging transition, or series of transitions. It affects social, economic, emotional and physical lives, and decisions about relationships, places to live, indeed all aspects of being alive. Retiring Livespresents fourteen personal real life stories from people at various stages of retiring. Each author recounts their own story about retiring, bringing together many aspects of the experiences: the social, psychological and practical. These inspirational and illustrated stories will encourage the reader to hold up these experiences to their own, learn from comparisons and similarities and extend their own thinking. The book also includes chapters on setting up and running a retiring group; the process of retiring as an aspect of professional development and reoccurring financial themes; and the benefits, allowances and privileges of becoming older. These contributions will stir the reader into becoming actively involved in the planning for their own retirement This book is essential reading for those working within the education sector. It will also benefit all those considering retiring or changing how they view their working lives, whatever their professional background. It will be useful for those who want to set up or advise on retiring groups and workshops both within and outside their organizations.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. xii
Big issues and the experience of the Retiring Women group
Perspectives on retiring: dipping our bread into the sherry	p. 4
The history of the Retiring Women group	p. 24
What we have learned about running the group	p. 30
Retiring stories
Three teachers talk about retiring	p. 40
Hip-hop, illness and early retirement	p. 52
Transitions and transformations	p. 60
Part-time work as a way forward into retirement	p. 70
Busy doing nothing...	p. 78
Reflections on gender and retiring	p. 88
Even busier in my Third Age	p. 98
Dogs and duvets: living in rural France as a retirement project	p. 104
One step forward and two back, then hopefully forward again	p. 112
Retiring backwards	p. 120
A conversation with Ted Mercer, looking back twenty years	p. 126
Into the airlock	p. 130
Supporting and celebrating retiring
Professional development for retiring	p. 142
Helping people to the other side: recurring themes from a financial adviser	p. 156
Reasons to be cheerful	p. 162
Appendix: bibliography and contacts	p. 168
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