Living in Retirement: And Helping Your Parents Enjoy Retirement

A book that will help you, or someone that you care about, enjoy the retirement years. Living In Retirement: And Helping Your Parents Enjoy Retirement will help people who are anticipating retirement, those who are entering retirement, and those who have many years of experience in retirement. This book will also provide help and support to the adult children of retirement age parents. Living In Retirement: And Helping Your Parents Enjoy Retirement is divided into two sections: Section One, for the person anticipating or living in retirement; Section Two for the adult child of older parents. Each section presents helpful information in a practical and thoughtful manner. As an example, the value of relationships with friends is discussed addressing the more possitive influence of friends to the older person when compared to family relationships. Steps are outlined for attaining an improved quality of life in the retirement years and suggestions are provided for enhancing parent adult-child relationship. The book does not imply that it has all of the answers and encourages the readers to be creative and adventurous in exploring their own personal solutions. Most importantly, this book emphasizes the strengths and attributes of the plder person and offers research based support of these qualities. For the adult child, the book supplies empathic, supportive suggestions acknowledging the viewpoint of the parent without neglecting the psyche of the child. This Manuscript, in a sense, gives "permission" to the adult child to feel certain emotions without experiencing any corresponding guilt. The book provides an array of vignettes and dialogue interspersed with humor and sentiment which will touch a familiar note in both parent and child.