Experience of Retirement

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Weiss, Robert S. Weiss, Robert S. Weiss Weiss, WEISS ROBERT S
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2005
• EAN: 9780801472527
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7252-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Ilr Press Book; Ilr Press Book
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance