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By Joel Dresang After we’re no longer working for our money — when we rely on our money to work for us – volunteering is a healthy way to capitalize on the time we have left. We can extend our years and accentuate our days. Volunteering is one way to both sustain our health and make our retirement more purposeful. […]

By Joel Dresang The trickier question raised by governments extending the retirement age is the non-financial quandary of when should we call it quits and begin the next phase of our lives? Semantically, it’s the difference between when can we retire and when should we. […]

By Joel Dresang Longevity experts call for a recasting of when and how we retire. That would require rethinking – and coaching. […]

By Joel Dresang It turns out we generally misplace priorities when assessing what to expect in retirement. […]

By Joel Dresang When we retire, we leave behind more than a job, more than a desk chair indelibly contoured to our proportions, more than a cadre of 9-to-5 companions. It turns out many of us leave a bit of our minds. “Retiring is associated with increased risk of cognitive decline,” says a report from the American Psychological Association. […]

By Joel Dresang I am part of a vanishing class of workers with so-called defined-benefit plans—company-funded accounts guaranteeing set monthly payments in retirement. There used to be more of us. My pension is from a former employer. In my age group, 1 in 10 households has a pension. That’s down from more than 6 in 10 in my father’s cohort. […]