"Boomers to change retirement"
A good article on the changing definition of the word "retirement." Bruce Johnson writes for the Leader Post on the Canada.com network. The subject is Sherry Cooper's new book, The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future.
Cooper's book explores the history of "retirement," and how lifestyles of the boomer demographic are revising the definition of what it means to be "retired."
Bruce Johnson:
"Our traditional view of retirement as that twilight period when we quit working and spend our remaining days shuffling around the garden, cottage or old folks' home is an obsolete concept that should be, well, retired."
Quote from Sherry Cooper:
"The notion of withdrawing and winding down when you retire, like not being able to move or function or participate, that's just so outmoded''
(yes, there are "boomers" in Canada, too!)
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