Resource Guide

Planning for Retirement Web Sites:

Cynthia Wallis-Hill will help you gain clarity about how what’s important and how you wish to live so that you can create your own map for this second life journey. A comprehensive pre-retirement planning tool is available along with several powerful coaching programs.

If you know you’d like to continue to work in your second life, but the question is “how?” the Center offers a seminar in which you can explore new careers, the changing workplace and how you might re-enter it.

Second Journey is a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation that offers educational experiences that explore and celebrate what it means to give one’s gifts in the second half of life—experiences promoting service, community, and mindfulness.

Focused on serving the needs of aging adults, Third age has you look beyond limitation into the world of possibilities.

This is an online discussion forum, designed for computer-using adults 50 and older. Senior Net’s mission is to provide older adults education for and access to computer technologies to enhance their lives and enable them to share their knowledge and wisdom

If you’re interested in travel, love learning, want instant traveling companions and need to watch your budget, check this out.

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Money and Finances in Retirement Web sites:

This web site is actually fun! If you love money, hate planning and want answers check this site out.

This web site gives you an easy to use, 1 page worksheet to help you quickly identify approximately how much you need to save to sustain a comfortable retirement lifestyle. Concepts and issues are presented in easy to understand language.

This web site takes the nine-step program described in the best-selling book: Your Money or Your Life, and offers guidance and resources.

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Other Interesting Lifestyle Improvement Web sites (random order) :

This is a great, interactive site to visit if you want to learn how to read music or just refresh your skills.

If you appreciate the notion that you can organize your home, your desk, etc., one step at a time and long to finally have a place for everything and everything in its’ place, you’ll love Fly Lady.

  • Getting a Life: www.gettingalife.org

This web site’s mission is to promote simple, sustainable, and spiritually rewarding lifestyles through our work, our giving, and our living example.

This site provides a questionnaire designed to help you pick the right community for you.

This is a great place to see how varied, simple, and convenient yoga exercising can be. It is illustrative and fun!

This not-for-profit organization’s mission is to motivate active adults to lead a healthy lifestyle through the senior games.

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Recommended Reading:

 There is a wealth of great books that can contribute to health and well being. These are just a glimpse of what’s available.

  • Ram Dass. Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying. Riverhead Books, New York: 2000.
  • Levine, Suzanne Braun. Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood. Viking Penguin, New York: 2005.
  • Northrup, Christiane. The Wisdom of Menopause. Bantam Books, New York: 2001.
  • Rowe, John W. and Kahn, Robert L. Successful Aging. Random House, Inc., New York: 1998.
  • Dychtwald, Ken. Age Power. Penguin Putnam, Inc., New York: 1999.

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