Description: A preeminent retirement and aging expert offers a revolutionary guide to second and even third acts for aging generations are are single, divorced, childless or who live long distance from family. What You'll Learn From This Book: - A life-planning checklist for Solo Agers - Stories of other Solo Agers successfully meeting retirement and aging challenges - Guidelines for developing a strong social network and avoiding isolation and loneliness - Specific ways to achieve financial security, including making an income in later life - Tips for maintaining good health and physical well-being throughout life - A formula for deciding where to live in retirement and later life - A tool for evaluating housing options - Obstacles to aging-in-place and checklist for home modifications - A comprehensive guide for advance planning - legal, financial, and personal
Brief description: Harry "Rick" Moody is the author of over 100 scholarly articles, as well as numerous books on aging. Dr. Moody previously served as Executive Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and was Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel (now Road Scholar). His new book, Gerontology: The Basics, will be published by Routledge in 2017. In 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging; in 2010, the Robert Kahn Award for Successful Aging, from Masterpiece Living and in 2008 he was named by Utne Reader Magazine as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." Dr. Moody lives with his wife in Boulder, Colorado.