Santa the active Retiree

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Today's shopping centre Santa is jolly and twinkly-eyed, but he also needs to be physically fit, attentive, have toy smarts and be able to say Merry Christmas in several languages. Some mall Santas even know sign language these days.




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Answers About Cobra Benefits and Subsidies: Part 2

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This week, Ron Pollack, the founding executive director of Families USA, a nonprofit health care advocacy organization, is answering readers’ questions about Cobra health benefits and subsidies and unemployment-related Cobra issues.

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Answers About Cobra Benefits and Subsidies: Part 1

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“Ask an Expert” is a recurring feature on Bucks in which you’ll have the opportunity to question big-brained individuals about a particular area of personal finance or consumer affairs.

This week, Ron Pollack, the founding executive director of Families USA, a nonprofit health care advocacy organization, is answering readers’ questions about Cobra health benefits and subsidies and unemployment-related Cobra issues. You can find his first batch of answers below.

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Health Benefits of Working after Retirement

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New research shows that post-retirement employment can improve a person's physical and mental well-being, which is good news for the rising number of Americans choosing to work after reaching retirement age.

An increasing number of people in the United States are opting to stay in or reenter the workforce after reaching retirement age, whether for financial reasons, personal fulfillment or to continue pursuing professional goals. New research shows that continuing to work beyond the traditional age of retirement provides not only monetary benefits, but also improves the physical and mental health of the workers, in some cases making them more vigorous than those who enter full retirement.

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Sleeping Easier After Retirement

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Retirement may lead to better sleep for those who don't retire due to health reasons, a new study indicates.

Reporting in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Sleep, Finnish scientists say the prevalence of sleep disturbances drops sharply after retirement.

This suggests that tossing and turning results from work-related demands and stress, the researchers say. Retirement has health benefits, they argue, but sleep may improve because stress declines.

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Bridge Employment and Retirees’ Health

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A national study published by the American Psychological Association finds that there are fewer major diseases and mental health problems for retirees who transition from full-time work into temporary or part-time jobs.

In fact, people who make a “bridge employment” transition between a full-time career and full retirement actually function better day to day than people who stop working altogether.


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The New Beginning

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Your life after retirement will be a new beginning.

Most people come to realize that when they reach retirement age, that they have no plan for their retirement life.

Many people set out a plan for his life, which could include investing time in college to find a way to work, setting career goals, then get into the house and start a family.

Your retirement plan should be well thought out as your pre-retirement life. You should try to achieve the most pleasant of execution of each stage of life, whether you are couple or on your own

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Keeping older workers a win-win

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CONTINUED employment of older workers is a win-win outcome as it means productive deployment of limited manpower resources in Singapore, Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong said.
Explaining why the Government is pressing on with legislative changes to introduce re-employment of older workers by 2012, Mr Gan told a seminar: 'If we can help more older workers stay in the workforce, it will enable them to remain active, earn a regular income, contribute to society, and better prepare for a more comfortable retirement. This will also benefit the companies as they can continue to tap on the experience and expertise of older workers as a valuable resource.'

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How Companies are Managing 'Unretirement'

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In a recent Towers Perrin survey of about 500 human resources and benefits executives, 59% indicated that employees are postponing retirement, and roughly 40% thought employees have been depleting their retirement assets, either via loans or reduced contributions to savings plans. In view of these trends, some employers have begun to focus on the issues they will face in trying to manage a growing cadre of the "unretired."

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Retirees going back to work

Great article about Retirees going back to work.

One commenter asked, “Do you really want to spend the time and money to train new people instead of hiring the retired?”

“Because of the growing deficits, the government needs to cut expenses wherever [it] can,” another fed wrote. “By hiring a retiree, there are no added expenses.… You can't replace experience easily.”
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Retirees get back to work

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Retirement a time of problems and opportunities

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Retirement gives you the opportunity to spend your time your way. It allows you to make changes you want to make. It greatly increases the flexibility and decreases the pressures and stress of your life.

On the other hand, retirement can represent boredom. It can seem as though the purpose of life has been lost. You can find yourself in isolation and you can find yourself in relative poverty.

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Retirement - A New Start - Part 1 by Geoff Oswald

The average lifespan for the world is now 66.12 years (2008 estimate) and is appreciably higher in developed countries such as Japan which tops the list at 81. The figure is higher for women than their male counterparts. The number of centenarians is rising at the rate of 7% per annum. Whereas in the past we have thought of life stages as childhood, student, working and retirement, do we now have a new phase of 'emerging old age'?

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