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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Resources for Retirees

    Over the years I have collected a number of links to websites that offer information, inspiration, research and entertainment geared to people over age 60. You'll find this list of Retirement Resources down on the right hand side of the blog, below More Grownup Voices. I've found these sites to be helpful and informative, and so I encourage you to check them out. Explore the sites. Look for ideas and issues that are relevant to your life.

     For example, for travelers there's a link to Roads Scholar and National Geographic. For lifelong learners there's a link to the Osher foundation.  For people looking for post-retirement work, there are links to Encore and Second Act. For volunteers there's Volunteer Match.

     I also have some of the standard sites for seniors, such as the AARP site, and two links to the New York Times. One is for The New Old Age, a page that has been suspended but still offers archived material. The newer articles about life in retirement have been folded into the Times health section. So the other link brings you to New York Times - Health. (Note, however, that the Times limits your number of free visits per month unless you have a subscription.)

     Meanwhile, I just added a link to a new site called Manopause, which bills itself as a place for "men over 50 and the people who love them." It's brought to us by a group out of Los Angeles and includes among its contributors men and women who are doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, and at least one Pulitzer-Prize winner.

     For those who are academically inclined, I've posted a number of links to universities sponsoring retirement research that covers health, finance, relationships and other concerns of the older population. So take a look. There are links to the well-known Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, as well as research centers at Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Stanford, and the University of Utah.

     I hope you'll scroll down on the right and take advantage of this trove of information available to us, all for free. Meanwhile, if you've run across any other useful, reliable websites that will enrich our retirement lives, I hope you'll share them with us.

     May we all have a healthful, productive and satisfying 2020.

16 comments:

gigi-hawaii said...

Thanks for telling us about the retirement resources, all good no doubt.

The Liberty Belle said...

A wealth of valuable information. Thanks for sharing.

DJan said...

Thanks for all this wonderful information and resources. :-)

Arkansas Patti said...

Thanks for all the sites you have made available. So very thoughtful of you.

Tom said...

Hope you find at least some of them helpful.

Olga said...

And do let up know when Manopause the Musical comes out! ;)

Kathy @ SMART Living 365.com said...

Hi Tom! Thanks for listing all those great resources AND for pointing out where we can find them on your page? Have you had them there long? I honestly never noticed. But now I'm going to have to check them all out...but I did check out Manopause and had to laugh when it says: " a man’s state of mental and physical chaos caused by hormone imbalance, sometimes turning him into an asshole." Definitely plenty of humor thrown in so it's easy to like! ~Kathy

Rebecca Olkowski said...

Such an interesting and diverse list of resources. Good to know they're there.

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Trudi said...

>the government pays to rebuild your house

Tom... it isn't the "government".. it's YOU... and me! Taxpayers.

NC route 12 runs the length of the Outer Banks... aka sand dunes. Between 2003 & 2013, we, NC taxpayers, have spent over $100 MILLION replacing that road when it has been washed out repeatedly. The Outer Banks are lovely to visit. However, I and many other North Carolinians are tired of feeding the ocean... so that wealthy beach front home owners can enjoy their properties. That money could be used to upgrade plenty of roads elsewhere in the state.

Sand dunes should be used for "first flights" (think Wright brothers), camping, fishing, strolls, swimming (watch out for sharks) but not for building.

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Kay said...

Thank you for all these wonderful resources, Tom. They sound very informative.

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Unknown said...

Thanks Tom and congratulations on this great idea. I came to your site because of a recommendation from Rebeca on her Babyboomster site, and it is the first contact with your page that captured me because of the variety of topics and points of view that you have managed to gather and that you offer to those of us who are part of this generation, that has inaugurated life from the 60s to the 80s as an active and productive stage, for the first time in history. From today you have an enthusiastic follower in me.