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Employee fringe benefits --- Retirees --- Bankruptcy --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Persons --- Finance, Personal. --- Pensions --- Finance, Personal --- E-books
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Retirement brings with it the promises of leisure and freedom as well as the risks of boredom and isolation. When retirees rid their schedules of anything resembling the kinds of obligations that once had been imposed by work, they will experience a sometimes-uncomfortable absence of structure. In The Experience of Retirement, the distinguished sociologist Robert S. Weiss provides a detailed description of how some people plan their retirement, what life in retirement is like, and what makes for a fulfilling retirement. His engaging book can thus serve as a most useful guide. Weiss shows us both retirement's benefits and its possible costs, both the relief retirees can feel once free of work's stresses and constraints and the discomfort that can be caused by loss of the positive aspects of working life.The book is based on extensive interviews with eighty-nine men and women before and after their retirement from middle-income careers. Weiss makes vivid their experiences by presenting, in their own words, their descriptions of leaving their careers, considering what to do with their time, confronting issues of income in retirement, dealing, sometimes, with social isolation, and reorganizing their lives. The interviews reveal the way in which retirement affects marriages and other familial relationships. Weiss concludes by presenting advice about retirement based on the actual experiences of retirees. For anyone approaching the age of retirement or already retired and looking for a more satisfying post-career life, for personnel managers, health care professionals, and all those who provide services for the retired, The Experience of Retirement will be an illuminating guidebook to this phase of life.
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Retirees --- Older people --- Health and hygiene --- Health and hygiene. --- Geriatrics --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Persons
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The book offers a critical perspective, challenging positivistic, essentialist definitions of lifestyle migration. We follow the journeys of retired working-class British women as they seek, recreate and construct community in a new context.
Retirees --- Retired women --- Retirement, Places of --- Places of retirement --- Women pensioners --- Women retirees --- Women --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Persons
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This book reviews, summarizes, and integrates a diverse literature on the topic of retirement and provides a coherent view to better inform researchers and practitioners. Organized around three phases of the retirement process--pre-retirement, retirement decision-making, and post-retirement--the chapters examine economic, sociological, gerontological, and psychological theory and research. Topics discussed include: types of retirement, retirement planning and preparation, early retirement incentive programs, the economics of the retirement decision-making, and work after retirement, among othe
Retirement --- Retirees --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Persons --- Older people --- Superannuation --- Termination of employment --- Leisure --- Old age --- Decision making. --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychology. --- Attitudes. --- Economic conditions. --- Decision making --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Attitudes --- Economic conditions
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Dr. Harold G. Koenig, with expertise in the fields of geriatrics, mental health, and religion, explains that the notion of retirement was in fact a marketing tool developed in the post-World War II period. Continuing today, society's image of retirement is based largely on myths, such as: things will get better when you retire-you'll be able to do everything you wanted to but couldn't when you worked. In fact, these beliefs can be harmful, leading to emotional issues, identity crises, and problems with physical health.
Retirement. --- Retirees --- Self-actualization (Psychology) --- Growth, Personal --- Personal growth --- Self-improvement --- Self-realization (Psychology) --- Humanistic psychology --- Mental health --- Motivation (Psychology) --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Persons --- Older people --- Superannuation --- Termination of employment --- Leisure --- Old age --- Retirement
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Older people --- Older unemployed --- Employment. --- Retirees --- Employment --- E-books --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons
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Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan - the planned retirement community.
Retirement communities --- Retirees --- Older people --- Gerontology --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Case studies. --- Attitudes --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Old age --- Retirement, Places of --- Housing
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Wir leben in einer Zeit der weitreichenden Transformation des Sozialen: In Politik und Wirtschaft setzt sich ein Menschenbild durch, das von jedem Einzelnen erwartet, sich flexibel und vorsorgend, selbsttätig und eigenverantwortlich zu verhalten. Diese neue politische Ökonomie der Aktivgesellschaft greift dabei auch auf bislang verschonte Lebenssphären und -phasen über. So ist die politische Programmformel des »active aging« längst auch zu einem Teil der Fremd- und Selbstbeschreibung älterer Menschen geworden. Der Band untersucht den Wandel des politisch-medialen Altersbildes, konfrontiert diesen mit den Erzählungen älterer Menschen zu ihrem Leben im Ruhestand und überführt die Befunde in eine originelle Zeitdiagnose der alternden Gesellschaft. »Die Studie [bietet] eine überzeugende Rekonstruktion der diskursiven Neuverhandlung des Alters seit den 1980er Jahren, die viele substanzielle Einsichten auf einem hohen theoretischen Niveau entfaltet und nicht zuletzt auch sprachlich überzeugt.« Ludwig Amrhein, Soziologische Revue, 41/2 (2018) »Den AutorInnen [ist es] gelungen, die vielen widersprüchlichen Facetten eines brisanten Themas zu durchleuchten und beeindruckend vorzuführen, wie problematisch das Konzept der Altersaktivierung ist. Kritische Sozialforschung in Bestform!« Esther Gajek, Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde (2016) »Den AutorInnen gelingt es mit ihrem Buch, eine neue Perspektive der Altersforschung zu eröffnen, welche die Rede von den Potenzialen des Alters und den Aktivierungsdiskurs zu kritisieren vermag, da sie das Alter(n) im Kontext der Aktivgesellschaft und des flexiblen Kapitalismus betrachtet.« Benjamin Gerwoll Ronca, Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, 111 (2015) »Auch jenseits von besonderem Forschungsinteresse der/s Einzelnen oder speziellem Hintergrundwissen bietet das Buch eine interessante Lektüre. Werden die Alten in Zukunft durch die drohende Altersarmut bald doch so aktiv sein, wie es der Staat sich jetzt schon wünscht? Das lesenswerte Buch liefert zu dieser Debatte einen wichtigen Beitrag.« Lea Arnold, kritisch-lesen.de, 07.04.2015 »Auch wenn der Leser durch die [...] Begrifflichkeit der Autoren gefordert ist: Ihre Ergebnisse öffnen ihm die Augen über so manche politische Dimension des Alters, von dem er bisher vielleicht geglaubt haben mochte, es sei eine bloß biologische Tatsache.« Peter Meisenberg, WDR5 - Politikum, 23.07.2014 »Ein hochinnovatives, methodisch fundiertes und in jeder Hinsicht beeindruckendes Zeugnis dafür, über welche Potentiale die Soziologie als ›kritische Wissenschaft der alternden Gesellschaft‹ verfügt. Es [stellt] eine lange Zeit vermisste Gegenstimme zum vermeintlich unproblematischen Alters-Aktivierungsdiskurs dar. Es ist damit nicht nur für die Scientific Community von größtem Interesse, sondern dürfte auch über die Grenzen des Fachs und der Wissenschaft hinaus für Aufsehen sorgen. ›Leben im Ruhestand‹ hat [...] beste Chancen, zu einem jener Standardwerke zu werden, hinter das die Gerontologie nicht mehr zurückfallen kann.« Sven Schwabe, www.socialnet.de, 27.05.2014 Besprochen in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29./30.03.2014 Schweizer Arbeitgeber, 7 (2014) www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 07.07.2014, Dieter Bach Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung, 7 (2014) Soziale Arbeit, 10/11 (2014) Stadtpunkte, 2 (2014) BBE-Newsletter, 4 (2014) Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue, 14/2 (2015), Frank Ragutt Philosophische Rundschau, 62/1 (2015), Martin Gessmann/Martina Schmidhuber
Retirement --- Old age pensions --- Aging --- Retirees --- Older people --- Superannuation --- Termination of employment --- Leisure --- Old age --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Persons --- Social aspects --- Social conditions. --- Alter; Demographie; Lebensführung; Wohlfahrtsstaat; Sozialstaat; Ost-West-Vergleich; Aktivierung; Neoliberalismus; Gesellschaft; Soziologische Theorie; Bevölkerung; Sozialpolitik; Soziologie; Aging Studies; Neoliberalism; Society; Sociological Theory; Population; Social Policy; Sociology --- Neoliberalism. --- Population. --- Social Policy. --- Society. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology.
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Emigration and immigration --- Retirees. --- Social aspects. --- Developing countries --- Emigration and immigration. --- People, Retired --- Retired people --- Retired persons --- Persons --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs (Newly industrialized countries) --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries
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