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    information for those who are going to retire. Before looking at how retirement affects different ethnic groups, how health and therapeutic interventions can be enhanced and it will explain how family members can be included in the care of the older person. The sources used for this report includes books, journals and online websites. The role of the carer/organisation in promoting positive attitudes to ageing and retirement According to the latest central statistics office (CSO) figures

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    Retirement is recognised as being an important life transition (Szinovacz, 1980), associated with a number of adjustments including social roles, income and daily routine adaption’s (Pinquart & Schindler, 2007). Although there is no single definition of what retirement is within existing literature (Denton & Spencer, 2009), it can arguably be best understood as an subjective journey involving a psychosocial transition rather than a single event of exiting work or an objective life transition (Matour

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    Retirement Age and Social Security Viability In a topic so controversial that congressional aides have referred to it as the “third rail of American politics,” it is easy to shirk off the conversation about the sustainability of the American Social Security system (Safire 2007). But all the data suggests that it is sustainable only in the short-term. Without immediate incremental changes made to the full-retirement age, trust fund reserves that help pay for the program will become exhausted in twenty

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    in time, the habits he developed throughout the length of his career will come to an end. When the age of retirement comes, an individual will have to withdraw from nearly all of these activities. This aspect of aging has become a subject of several studies because of the impacts it causes to people who reached this life phase, especially on their health. While some studies argue that retirement negatively affects

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    Looking for an early retirement? How can you accumulate a big corpus in less time? People around the globe are getting interested in the early retirement. The fast and hectic life, less time for family and increasing diseases, depression and intolerance can be the reasons for early retirements. Apart from tough reasons, various people strive to retire early to indulge themselves into something that are close to their heart but had not given time because of professional responsibilities like be

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    A quality retirement plan can help companies retain top talent and attract highly skilled new employees to offset the talent loss that comes with an aging workforce. According to Scott Boyd, SVP, National Platform Distribution and Relationships and head of Healthcare Solutions for Prudential Retirement, in Hartford, Connecticut. Plan sponsors and their providers or advisors when discussing retirement plan design tend to have conversations about plan costs instead, they should consider the more implicit

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    him to take all the time he needed and that we can change the subject and he agreed. Mr. O talked about being financially insecure and lacking savings for retirement, which is one of the biggest challenges he faces during the aging process. Not having enough finances to pay for his daily needs is a challenge he faces frequently. Retirement usually rely on pension, social security and personal savings , but ethnic seniors rarely have a pension or personal savings and rely heavily on social

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    Mandatory retirement is perhaps a necessary evil; as older employees are forced out of the work force, it creates space for new, younger employees. Mandatory retirement is a form of age discrimination, it forces a person to retire because they are a certain age; it does not take into account if that person wants to retire. It also does not take into account the financial standing of the individual, or if they are physically or mentally still capable of doing the job. Although mandatory retirement

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    The Pros and Cons of Early Retirement kw: benefits of early retirement Meta: If you can get the money together fast enough, there are some benefits of early retirement. Find out the pros and cons of retiring early. While many Americans are still working to recover from the recession of 2007 to 2009, the economy has picked up in recent years. The dreams of retiring early are back. According to one survey, an estimated 37 percent of Americans expect to retire before the age of 65. There are some

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    Baby Boomers; Defying Retirement Baby boomers are people born in the years between 1946 and 1964. In the U.S, the number of workers over 55 has dropped significantly since year 2000. However, in the coming decade- while baby boomers will be hitting retirement age- there will not be enough younger people to fill in the vacancies. Many baby boomers will therefore need to remain in the workforce. Consequently, there is need for baby boomer jobs and retirement planning. With a variety of home business

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