Boomers create new kind of retirement
For retiring Baby Boomers, staying active is about more than just having fun
MSNBC, May 30th, 2006
In Bluffton, newly retired schoolteacher Andrea Flanagan and her husband, Mark,
have some big decisions to make. Not about what to do with the rest of their
lives, but what not to do.
“I see other people settling down,
and I feel like we are just starting up,” Andrea Flanagan says.
For the Flanagans — both 60 and
born in the first year of the baby boom — retirement means activity. They're
learning new skills — picking up new sports from biking to volleyball — a long
way from the traditional rocking chair.
That’s par for the course for
boomers who have reshaped America at every turn, says Marc Freedman, author of
“Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform
America.”
“This new generation is not only
expanding the definition of activity and expanding the definition of retirement,
they are actually creating something entirely new — a stage of life that hasn't
existed before,” Freedman says.
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