retirement

Single, Female and Want to Retire? This Book’s for You

Posted on 11/3/2012 by | Money | Comments

Money & Savings | WorkSingle, female and hoping to retire soon? AARP’s new book “The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement” goes beyond the money issues retirement poses to women. See also: AARP’s Retirement Calculator Retirement expert Jan Cullinane offers a comprehensive look at all the factors women need to consider before they retire. AARP: How did you get the idea for this book? JC: I give retirement talks to a wide variety of audiences, and after almost every talk, women would come up to …

I’m Taking Away Your Allowance

Posted on 10/29/2012 by | Sex & Relationships | Comments

Home & Family | Money & Savings | RelationshipsQ: My husband will not quit spending. He has purchased several vehicles, only to trade them in for less than we owed on them. During our 18-year marriage, we have refinanced our house six times to pay off loans and credit cards. When we refinanced this last time, I refused to pay any of his credit cards or loans off. I would not have even considered refinancing again, but the low rates were appealing. That was 21/2 years ago. I …

Check the Math: Social Security Is a Good Deal

Posted on 10/26/2012 by | Social Security | Comments

Money & Savings | WorkIt’s a question lots of people have about Social Security: Do you get back as much as you put in? But this question only gets at part of the story: Social Security is a kind of insurance, not just an investment. It protects you and your family from things nobody wants to think about — death and disability. In other words, it contributes to well being and peace of mind in ways that may be impossible to measure. A few …

Rambling Retirees Buck Aging-in-Place Trend

Posted on 10/8/2012 by | Brooklyn, NY | Comments

News Roundups | Travel“You get to fall asleep with the rocking of the waves and the wind, and with the Internet, you can home-office from just about anywhere,” says Ian Morton, an American semi-retiree who spends half the year on a houseboat outside Montreal, Canada. Morton, 51, one of several “rambling retirees” profiled by Reuters in a piece on boomers who are bucking the “aging in place” trend. Though exact stats are hard to come by, evidence points to a growing number of grown-ups trading houses and retirement communities for houseboats, RVs and strangers’ sofas.

Jean Chatzky’s 12 Essential Money Rules

Posted on 09/22/2012 by | General News | Comments

Money & Savings“Rules. A life without rules is exhausting and emotionally fraught.” That’s how Jean Chatzky opened her hour long session on financial security and retirement at Life@50+ today. She admitted that rules don’t seem fun – and the audience agreed. But soon she brought the crowd around to the virtues of boundaries, planning and delayed gratification. “Once you start planning, and get the numbers down on the page, things may not be as bad as you think they are,” said Chatzky, …

“Booming” Question: Where Will We Live Next?

Posted on 09/21/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Your LifeFelice Shapiro is a writer, entrepreneur, and publisher as well as the founder of Better After 50, a weekly online magazine. In addition to being a teacher and avid runner, hiker, and yogi, she is an AARP contributor. Annie, Jean, Claude, Albert and Jeanne have been friends for over forty  years. But they are growing old, and old age tends to be synonymous with reduced autonomy, loss of memory, illness, retirement home and, worst of all, separation. One day, one of …