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Living Your Best Encore: Jayne Galanka

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. Meet Jayne Galanka. After a 42 year long career, Jayne shares how she is embracing retirement and looks to find joy each day.
Relationships

Caregiving from a Distance: The Navigation of Guilt and Logistics

My mother loved her home and community and was completely against making any changes to her living arrangements. How would we manage care from a distance?
Life

Overwhelmed by Home Maintenance? Suggestions to Help You Age in Place with Perspective

The majority of people would like to age in their own homes however home maintenance and repairs can sometimes feel overwhelming. Dr. Stephen Golant shares some suggestions on how we can keep our perspective.
Life

A Few Well Tailored Thoughts

What we choose to wear can often be judged - especially as we get older. But are we the ones who are actually judging? And should we care?
Purpose

Living Your Best Encore: Susan Black

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. Meet Susan Black. Discover how at age 62, Susan transformed her grief and the memory of her mother into developing a global virtual travel platform.
Purpose

Living Your Best Encore: Richard Eisenberg

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. Meet Richard Eisenberg. Richard is a recognized thought leader in personal finance, retirement and aging and shares how his Ikigai keeps him motivated.
Life

One of the Paradoxes of Retirement: Shifting from Time Scarcity to Time Affluence

As we transition into retirement, a striking shift starts to occur; we begin to move from a life of time scarcity to one of time affluence. While this change may seem like a dream come true, our new reality can often be more complicated than that. 
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The Longevity Lifestyle: A Blueprint for Healthy Living

While we may not be able to control everything about aging, we can influence how we experience it.
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Life

Retirement Matters: Why It's Time to Reimagine Life After Full-Time Work

When planning for retirement, financial considerations typically take centre stage. Yet research consistently demonstrates that non-financial factors are often more important in determining whether someone has a good retirement. Now is the time to reimagine what retirement can really be.
Purpose

Ask a Retirement Coach: Why Am I Feeling Unfulfilled in Retirement?

In retirement, we often believe if we're financially stable we should have no reason to feel unfulfilled but retirement is much more than just about money.
Opinions

Dear Financial Planners and Advisors: Retirement Planning Isn’t Just About the Numbers—It’s About the Person

The traditional model of retirement planning is under pressure. Clients are no longer just looking for someone to manage their money—they're looking for guidance on how to live meaningful, financially secure lives in a world that feels increasingly unpredictable.
Life

The Shifting Trends in Later Life Rituals: Retirement Parties and Funerals 

Later in life, two of the most significant life experiences is often retirement and death. But given changing social behaviours and attitudes, the traditional rituals we used to have surrounding these milestones are now being transformed. 
Technology

AI is Giving Us All More Time - How Will Choose to Use Yours?

With the advent of AI, many of us may become winners of the “time lottery.” AI could give us more free time in our days and more healthy years in our lives. But are we really ready for this?
Purpose

Living Your Best Encore: Judith Nadratowski

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, writer Judith Nadratwoski shares her experience in transition from a career in law to becoming a writer.
Retirement Rebels

Being Inspired from the Masters

Mike Drak was happy to find a new retirement role model at this years Master tournament. 89 year old Gary Player.
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Purpose

Living Your Best Encore: Stella Fosse

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, author Stella Fosse shares her story of transformation later in life moving from the biotech industry to romance novelist.
Retirement Rebels

A Retirement Rebel’s Guide to Living Life and Redefining Retirement

At age 70, Mike Drak believes he still has plenty of gas left in the tank, and plans to push himself outside of his comfort zone for as long as he can.
Technology

Family Caregivers Assuming Another Burden - Becoming Gerontechnology Mentors

Wanting to age in place, older people often turn to their loved ones. Being a caregiver is challenging enough but many are seeing technology support now added to their responsibilities.
Life

Ask a Retirement Coach: What Did You Learn in Your Own Retirement Transition?

This week in our Ask a Retirement Coach series, Retirement Coach Toni switched seats and shares insights of what she discovered was important in her own first year of retirement.
Opinion

Retirement Meets Maslow

Could Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs be applied to the concept of retirement? Mike Drak thinks it can.

Women and Aging - We've Come a Long Way But Still Have Some Distance to Go

March 8th is International Women's Day. Women have come a long way, but still have some distance to go.
Health

Ask a Retirement Coach: I Know I Should Exercise But Am Finding It Hard to Do

Often one of the first things people plan to do in retirement is exercise. But sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Retirement Coach Toni shares her advice on how to get going.
Life

Clearing Your Life's Clutter

Does your life feel cluttered? Not just with stuff, but also with your personal affairs? Then this should interest you. Retirement and Clutter Clearing Coach Lori Becker joins us to discuss her new book - Get a Grip - and how it can help you organize and declutter your life.

Career Advice To My Younger Self

To coin a phrase “if I knew then what I know now“, here is some career advice that I would share.
Technology

Can Voice-Activated Personal Assistants Improve Older People's Quality of Life? 

"Personal Assistants" can understand people's spoken queries and respond in an easy-to-understand, human-like conversational manner. But can this technology help improve an older person's life?