Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers: A Retirement and Aging Roadmap for Single and Childless Adults (Retirement Planning Book, Aging, Estate

A preeminent retirement and aging expert offers a revolutionary guide to second and even third acts for aging generations are are single, divorced, childless or who live long distance from family. What You'll Learn From This Book: - A life-planning checklist for Solo Agers - Stories of other Solo Agers successfully meeting retirement and aging challenges - Guidelines for developing a strong social network and avoiding isolation and loneliness - Specific ways to achieve financial security, including making an income in later life - Tips for maintaining good health and physical well-being throughout life - A formula for deciding where to live in retirement and later life - A tool for evaluating housing options - Obstacles to aging-in-place and checklist for home modifications - A comprehensive guide for advance planning - legal, financial, and personal

ISBN-13: 9781633537682

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Mango

Publication Date: 04-15-2018

Pages: 322

Product Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Geber, Sara: - A certified retirement coach and workshop leader Sara Zeff Geber is a recognized expert in the field of planning for the next phase of life, with a focus on the 55+ age group. Sara has been among the first professionals in the field to recognize that the baby boom generation would re-invent the whole notion of retirement in a very exciting way. Sara's professional roots are in organizational psychology. She has worked extensively in the area of leadership development, helping professionals understand the importance of their personality and behavioral style to the kind of work they choose to do and becoming more effective within their chosen field. In her current work Dr. Zeff Geber has shifted that knowledge and expertise to helping people understand how their background, style, and personality can lead to a more satisfying post-career lifestyle or 55+ job shift. Sara has a Ph.D. in Counseling and Organizational Behavior, a M.A. in Guidance and Counseling, and a B.A in Psychology. She has worked successfully, both nationally and internationally, with multi-billion dollar corporations, small to medium-size organizations, and independent individuals.. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sara is an active member in the Financial Planning Association of Silicon Valley, the Life Planning Network, and Women in Consulting. She is on the leadership team for the NorCal Life Planning Network. In her scarce spare time Sara sings soprano in Schola Cantorum, a premier Silicon Valley choir, skis in the winter and grows vegetables in her garden in the summer. She lives with her husband and their elderly canine companion in San Francisco Bay Area, CA.Moody Harry Rick: - Harry "Rick" Moody is the author of over 100 scholarly articles, as well as numerous books on aging. Dr. Moody previously served as Executive Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and was Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel (now Road Scholar). His new book, Gerontology: The Basics, will be published by Routledge in 2017. In 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging; in 2010, the Robert Kahn Award for Successful Aging, from Masterpiece Living and in 2008 he was named by Utne Reader Magazine as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." Dr. Moody lives with his wife in Boulder, Colorado.