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The Experience of Retirement
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The Experience of Retirement Paperback - 2005

by Weiss, Robert S

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  • Title The Experience of Retirement
  • Author Weiss, Robert S
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London
  • Date 2005-11-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP76429326
  • ISBN 9780801472527 / 0801472520
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.06 x 0.65 in (23.01 x 15.39 x 1.65 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Retirement - United States, Retirees - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005017716
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.380

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Retirement brings with it the promises of leisure and freedom as well as the risks of boredom and isolation. When retirees rid their schedules of anything resembling the kinds of obligations that once had been imposed by work, they will experience a sometimes-uncomfortable absence of structure. In The Experience of Retirement, the distinguished sociologist Robert S. Weiss provides a detailed description of how some people plan their retirement, what life in retirement is like, and what makes for a fulfilling retirement. His engaging book can thus serve as a most useful guide. Weiss shows us both retirement's benefits and its possible costs, both the relief retirees can feel once free of work's stresses and constraints and the discomfort that can be caused by loss of the positive aspects of working life.The book is based on extensive interviews with eighty-nine men and women before and after their retirement from middle-income careers. Weiss makes vivid their experiences by presenting, in their own words, their descriptions of leaving their careers, considering what to do with their time, confronting issues of income in retirement, dealing, sometimes, with social isolation, and reorganizing their lives. The interviews reveal the way in which retirement affects marriages and other familial relationships. Weiss concludes by presenting advice about retirement based on the actual experiences of retirees. For anyone approaching the age of retirement or already retired and looking for a more satisfying post-career life, for personnel managers, health care professionals, and all those who provide services for the retired, The Experience of Retirement will be an illuminating guidebook to this phase of life.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 11/01/2005, Page 102
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/12/2005, Page 55

About the author

Robert S. Weiss is a Senior Fellow in the Gerontology Institute and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Marital Separation, Learning from Strangers, and Staying the Course. David J. Ekerdt is Professor of Sociology and Interim Director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Kansas.

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