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Planning Your Time in Retirement: How to Cultivate a Leisure Lifestyle to Suit Your Needs and Interests

Robert A. Stebbins

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Description for Planning Your Time in Retirement: How to Cultivate a Leisure Lifestyle to Suit Your Needs and Interests Paperback. As the greying of our population continues, retirees are enjoying more and more healthy years of retirement, and those years can be productive, enjoyable, and rewarding. This work speaks to those retirees who wish to enjoy their golden years doing things they enjoy. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: VFJG; VSR; W. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 267.
Much of what is written about getting old has a negative feel to it, which is certainly not entirely unjustified. Health may begin to fail. Finances may become tighter as income dwindles or stops altogether. Family and friends may move away or move on. But the retirement years do not have to be negative or bleak. Within this “dark scenario,” a positive existence is possible. Planning Your Time in Retirement focuses on the variety of free-time activities available to retirees as related to their physical, social, and economic situation in old age, helping readers find out what their passions are, ... Read more

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Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2015

Condition

New

Number of Pages

184

Place of Publication

Lanham, MD, United States

ISBN

9781442248700

SKU

V9781442248700

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About Robert A. Stebbins

Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, received his PhD in sociology in 1964 from the University of Minnesota. He is now Faculty Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada. Stebbins is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Leisure Sciences, and World Leisure Academy. He is also an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa, Macalester ... Read more

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Planning Your Time in Retirement covers a topic of ever-increasing importance from a unique perspective. As a professor who has taught courses on the topic of leisure and aging for over 30 years, I especially recommend this book to those who are planning to retire within the next five to ten years. It could help make the difference between ... Read morea successful retirement and the depression that so many professionals experience shortly after they retire.
Michael J. Leitner, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Recreation and Parks Management at California State University, Chico Planning Your Time in Retirement is a book only Robert Stebbins could write. Not only has Stebbins had a highly successful career as a social scientist, rigorously studying leisure at its best, but he is well-known as a gifted story-teller able to communicate his insights by vividly bringing to life the people he studies. The scientist and the story-teller are evident in this book. Stebbins does a wonderful job of describing ways in which serious, project-based, and casual leisure can be mixed and balanced with the demands of the rest of life to create meaningful retirement lifestyles. The ideas he presents help readers understand the diverse ways in which they can construct lifestyles that contribute to successful aging consistent with their financial resources and social and psychological needs.
Roger C. Mannell, Ph.D., professor of Leisure Studies and Public Health; director of RBC Retirement Research Centre, University of Waterloo Robert A. Stebbins explains how those nearing retirement (or those who are retired) might achieve a "life of leisure." So often, we as leisure scholars bemoan the lack of understanding of the benefits of leisure in society today and we encourage people to learn more about the value of leisure. This book teaches the retiree or soon to be retiree about various forms of leisure and how to cultivate a leisure lifestyle. Stebbins presents the principles of his serious leisure framework alongside his philosophy of "positive simplicity" to show retirees how they can make the most of the opportunities presented to them by the freedom from work and other responsibilities afforded people in later life. So rather than dreading retirement, Stebbins encourages retirees not only to embrace this time, but also provides them with a lot of good suggestions as to how they might go about it.
Heather Gibson, professor of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management, University of Florida Show Less

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