Not your mother's retirement : secrets for today's women to live fully during the best years of life

Listen up! A successful retirement doesn't happen all by itself but it can occur if you plan wisely for it. Geared to women in their forties and fifties, Not Your Mother's Retirement is a user-friendly resource for planning for the future while you still have enough time to do it. Containing 20 fun and inspiring essays by more than 20 notable retirement experts, the book provides practical tools and information and covers such key areas as housing, health, travel, finances, work, volunteering, being single, finding community, and staying active. This is one book you can't afford to pass up. Insure that you have a meaningful retirement in the years ahead by putting the ideas and advice in this book into practice now. All contributors provided their essays on a pro-bono basis as all the royalties from the sale of this book will benefit cancer research and prevention. Achieving financial independence : how women can create retirement wealth -- Julie Jason No pie in the sky -- M. Cindy Hounsell Thinking ahead...what's next? -- Dorian Mintzer Give me shelter--and more! -- Sally Abrahms Cohousing : create your own retirement community -- Kathryn McCamant Retiring solo -- Sara Zeff Geber Inventing your best retirement...a circle of trust is a must -- Suzanne Braun Levine Ditch retirement! instead, graduate into an encore career -- Marci Alboher How to reinvent your career for semi-retirement -- Nancy Collamer Travel--the gift that continues to give -- Akaisha Kaderli Planning a backpack-and-a-rollie retirement -- Nancy Thompson Learning never retires -- Kali Lightfoot Learning later, living greater! -- Nancy Merz Nordstrom The value of volunteering -- Shirley Sagawa Start now--planning for retirement begins today! -- Dawn Angelo Caregiving and the next season of your life -- Paula Solomon Exercise now for a healthy retirement -- Elizabeth O'Brien Creating a culture of movement--a sane approach to good health -- Moira Lanier It's your retirement : what do you really want it to be -- Amy Wood Pack your spiritual knapsack for retirement -- Pat Hoertdoerfer. "Listen up! A successful retirement doesn't happen all by itself but it can occur if you plan wisely for it. Geared to women in their forties and fifties, Not Your Mother's Retirement is a user-friendly resource for planning for the future while you still have enough time to do it."--Page 4 of cover.