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Baby boomers are turning 60 every 8 seconds and are changing the face of retirement. Retirement is becoming protirement as adults in midlife are finding themselves healthier, wealthier and more full of vim and vigor than ever before. How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees, edited by Barbara Waxman and Robert Mendelson, offers more than 500 pieces of advice from hundreds of retirees who have developed a vast array of strategies for making the most out of their retirement.

To get the most current advice for boomers contemplating retirement, Hundreds of Heads interviewed retirees across the country, from all walks of life, to discover how today’s men and women cope with the ups and downs of retirement—and find happiness and bigger rewards. The interviews revealed that today’s retirees define retirement in a wide variety of new ways from traveling to the discovery of new hobbies, from starting new businesses to pursuing life-long dreams of going back to school. “Today’s retirees have a lot more options and interests. Retirement used to be defined for us, but not anymore,” says Waxman, M.S., M.P.A.

How to Love Your Retirement offers retirees inspiration and practical information giving retirees crucial information which enables the making of more informed choices about retirement plans. Chapter topics include:

• How do you know when it is time to retire?

• Dealing with relationships during retirement, including living with your spouse 24/7

• Discovering your passions: new hobbies and interests and how to pursue them

• Working during retirement—do what your love, even starting your dream business

• Staying in shape and finding balance in your life

How to Love Your Retirement offers the perspectives of retirees from all over the country—as well as resources, tips, and exercises designed to help readers map their own journey. Whether readers are already living the “good life” or need a little inspiration, How to Love Your Retirement is sure to improve lives.

How to Love Your Retirement