Additional Resources
2young2retire
Fifty or better and wondering what the future holds? You're not alone. Welcome to 2young2retire, a resource for fresh, break-the-mold thinking about the life you want and how to achieve it.
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www.2young2retire.com
Mapping Your Retirement
Mapping Your Retirement helps you plan a retirement based on your values, interests, and resources. The guide provides information and worksheets on three critical elements of a meaningful retirement: Living Your Life, Maintaining Your Health, and Managing Your Money.
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www.mappingyourretirement.org
Alliance for Retired Americans, The
The Alliance for Retired Americans is a national organization committed to bringing social and economic justice to workplaces and society. They are working on such issues as a Medicare prescription drug benefit, affordable housing, and poverty.
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www.retiredamericans.org
International Foundation for Retirement Education
The International Foundation for Retirement Education is a non-profit foundation with the mission to help empower working Americans to save and plan for retirement. The site provides education resources for retirement planners.
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www.infre.org
North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement
This website provides many educational and personal opportunities for retired persons.
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www.unca.edu/ncccr
Post-Retirement and Active Employee Health Care Task Force Report
This website outlines alternative methods to provide and pay for post-retirement and active employee health care. (PDF format)
Contact information:
www.doer.state.mn.us/pdf/final.pdf
Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America
Author Marc Freedman predicts that “a new kind of aging” will soon bring new life to America. In Prime Time, he writes that the baby boomers will turn their golden years into an intense time of social activism, volunteerism, and lifelong learning. Freedman, M. (1999). Prime time: How baby-boomers will revolutionize retirement and transform America (1st ed.). New York: Public Affairs.
Contact information:
www.civicventures.org
ReFirement: A Boomers Guide to Life after 50
This book looks at how later life can be rejuvenating, revealing, and revitalizing -- an alternative to the traditional view of retirement as a withdrawal from society. Gambone, J. (2000). ReFirement™: A boomer's guide to life after 50. Minneapolis, MN: Kirk House. ISBN-13: 9781886513266
Retirement As Opportunity
Retirement as Opportunity is a personalized, consultative approach for your retirement transition. Focusing on the retirement process creates a well-thought through future. Combining evaluation, strategy, and implementation, Karen guides you confidently into the next phase of creating a compelling vision for your future.
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www.karengreerconsulting.com
Your Encore
People don't retire any more; they just go on doing other things is the theme of this break through new person-job role need matching service for the third agers. YourEncore is a service provider connecting the technology and product development opportunities of organizations with talented individuals - experts who are ready to apply years of experience and talent from a lifetime of creative problem solving. It extends the purpose of new exemplary initiatives of Eli Lilly and Proctor & Gamble in USA to launch a job-placement service matching their retired scientists and engineers with organizations in need of their knowledge.
Contact information:
www.yourencore.com
Reinventing Aging - Baby Boomers and Civic Engagement
Contact information:
www.ReinventingAging.org