Don't go into retirement cold turkey
March 31st 2009 00:01
"I am now 67 and am having the time of my life," writes Joe Collier on the BMJ (British medical journal) web site.
Collier's argument for an immediately satisfying life in the early years of retirement is to prepare early, cutting down working hours and involvement in the two or three years before retirement.
Cold turkey, he claims, can lead to too much of a shock.
"I devoted a lot of mental energy pondering what it was that made some older people part of society and left others marginalised or invisible," he writes.
The full article can be found here.
Collier's argument for an immediately satisfying life in the early years of retirement is to prepare early, cutting down working hours and involvement in the two or three years before retirement.
Cold turkey, he claims, can lead to too much of a shock.
"I devoted a lot of mental energy pondering what it was that made some older people part of society and left others marginalised or invisible," he writes.
The full article can be found here.
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