Over 25 million Americans over 50 want to volunteer. The research on what it does for health, happiness and purpose is hard to ignore.
Nearly half of all retirees left work earlier than planned – and three in four had no say. Here's how to plan for the exit you didn't choose.
When her father still compiles dictionaries at 87 and she has no plans to retire at 62, Lorraine Ladish makes a quiet but powerful argument: purpose doesn't have an expiration date.
Meredith Bethune flew internationally nearly every month as a travel writer. It took her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis to make her stop.
The old model – stop work, move somewhere warm, play golf – is giving way to something more active, more personal, and more purposeful.
Sixty percent of homeowners want to age in place. But is your home actually built for the person you'll be at 80, not just who you are now?
A retired teacher's honest reckoning with the moment she realised her identity belonged to her institution, not herself.
Retirement plans cover money and travel. Almost nobody plans for the social vacuum that arrives by month three.
Research shows the quality of your marriage is one of the strongest predictors of retirement happiness. Here are six evidence-based rules of engagement.
Research shows 51% of older workers stay on for purpose, not money. Here's what that looks like – and why the three-stage life model is finished.
A retired lawyer started a running list of things to do before he retired. It reached 16 pages – and transformed how he thinks about what retirement is for
Take a sabbatical to confront the reality of retirement before you're forced into it – because spreadsheets can't simulate the anxiety of Tuesday mornings with nowhere to go
