Retiring Retirement

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Retirement is one of the most significant life transitions in adulthood, and current “retirees” and the 78 million Baby Boomers just behind them are re-writing the rules. No longer satisfied with just a nice dinner and commemorative watch, golf or tennis lessons, or arts and crafts courses at the local Senior Center, many of us want a lot more out of our “golden years.” The experts are baffled but they really shouldn’t be, it has been coming for a while. After nearly a century of decline the male retirement age, stabilizing at 55 in 1980, has been moving slowly in the opposite direction ever since. Retirees are getting a little older each year, that is, postponing the time they actually leave the workforce. The important question is, “Why are Baby Boomers delaying retirement?”

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