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Monthly Archives: July 2014

Retirement Transition Reading: The Retirement Maze
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July 29, 2014 by Jean

Recently, a reader recommended that I take a look at The Retirement Maze: What You Should Know Before and After …
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Category: retirement books, Retirement planning | Tags: emotional responses to retirement, Louis H. Primavera, retirement, retirement planning, Rip Roach, Rob Pascale, The Retirement Maze, well-being
A Community of Caring
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July 22, 2014 by Jean

Last week, my friend Atsuko Hirai died at home, having lived six months longer than the most optimistic prognosis she …
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Category: Aging, Living, Social relationships | Tags: aging, Atsuko Hirai, friendship, living alone, serious illness, single women, social relationships
Getting By With a Little Help From Our Friends
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July 9, 2014 by Jean

One of the important tasks for retirement is to build a community of friends. Many people enter retirement with friendship …
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Category: Aging, Living, Retirement transition, Social relationships | Tags: friendship, living alone, retirement, retirement planning
The Threat of Marginality
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July 1, 2014 by Jean

In his book The Experience of Retirement, Robert S. Weiss notes that, All retirees face the same two challenges of …
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Category: Aging, Gender | Tags: aging, house addition, retirement and women, Robert S. Weiss, The Experience of Retirement

I am Jean Potuchek, a professional sociologist who has just stepped into the next phase of my life, retirement, after more than thirty years of college teaching. This blog is about my experience of that new phase of life.

Please join me as I step into my future.

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