Choices for Later Life - 9780749926991

Providing readers with a much-needed practical, workable, and realistic approach to the life choices and new opportunities that face us when we reach our 50s and beyond, Marie Lacheze writes for all men and women looking to make changes at a certain age. Whether you are middle aged and planning for the future or already retired; whether you have traditional values, living partners, and supportive families; or whether you don't have close families or a wide network of friends to fall back on and see yourself as somehow "different," this book is for you. Marie Lacheze has talked to and counseled hundreds of people and has found that there is no easy definitive answer to these most pressing questions. She sets out the concerns she has heard expressed most often and offers up ideas and insights to trigger a debate and help you arrive at the right answer for you. She provides case histories, checklists, and possible options, and suggests the steps you might take to make the best choices and decisions for you. Topics cover deciding where to live, lifestyle, how to manage your finances, dealing with elderly parents, medicine, allowing others to help you, dealing with past regrets, and balancing friends and family. A thoroughly insightful, thought-provoking and optimistic book, Choices for Later Life offers an alternative approach to the important issues that affect those in their 50s, 60s, and beyond.