About the Book
Did you know that the average life expectancy in the UK is currently increasing by 5 hours a day?
And that if you’re a 55 year-old man you have a 1 in 5 chance of reaching 95 - if you’re a 55 year-old woman that chance increases to 1 in 4?
Increasing life expectancy means that your retirement can last a long time, and you’re likely to be fitter and healthier than previous generations of retirees. Retirement provides opportunities to do new and exciting things, things you could only dream about when you’re working. But this is tempered with the knowledge that there is a finite time left to enjoy life. A finite time left to focus on what you really want to do, accomplish and enjoy.
We are entering unchartered waters, a time when we will radically change our perspective of what it is to be retired. My book, Talking About Retirement, seeks to help you recognise the opportunities ahead, to excite and inspire you and to show you how to make your retirement the best it can be.
So…….what’s in the book?
- Hopes – what are the chances of you achieving your retirement dreams?
- Fears – how to make sure your retirement dreads don’t become realities
- Looking good, feeling great – retirees reveal their secrets for keeping fit in old age – what works and what doesn’t
- Care in later old age – what’s the chance of you needing long term care, what’s available and how to pay for it
- Financial planning for retirement – helping you assess how much you’ll need, how much you’ve already got and how to make good any shortfall
- Life coaching – how to plan a fulfilling retirement life
- Investing – including the 11 deadly sins of investing
- Equity release – how to use your home to generate extra money in retirement
- Pension planning – how to assess what your pensions are worth, how to make them worth more and how to take benefits tax effectively
- The Retirement Code – 87 things to do to make your retirement a success
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