Lifestyle Retirement Planning

When psychologist Erik Erikson delineated his concept of the lifecycle he perceived the 4th Age (the final stage of life) as beginning in one’s 60s.

He later re-visited his earlier work to take account of the new demographics and warned against an initial retirement holiday followed by a time of virtual inactivity and wasted years of living. Erikson and his colleagues urged those in their 50s to develop plans to meet the lifestyle retirement challenge head on and advocating how retirees in our present society might become more integrated into community life.

An organised effort could help boomers envision, and plan for, a life that achieves meaningful fulfilment in their later years…