Retirement is not only about pensions. There are many decisions to
be made in planning for retirement: housing, medical coverage, entertainment and of course
financial security are all important. Beyond this there may be special needs such as
assisted living, nursing or long-term care, meals, house-keeping, etc. that also need to
be factored into retirement decisions. This page provides general information about
retirement, as well as links to other pages on this and other sites which will provide
helpful information to plan for your retirement. See
disclaimer
below.
Other sections within the Retirement Planner site include:
Financial Planning
Investment, Pensions, and Savings strategies, and Financial Calculators
at private and non-profit web sites.
Housing
Housing and
Urban Development, Eldercare references, Nursing Homes and general information.
Life Insurance
Private insurers, insurance calculators, and how to rate policies.
Long
Term Care
Important enough to merit a separate category. Lots of information about
long term care insurance.
Medical Coverage
Government and private sites with advice on preparing for the medical
coverage needed for your retirement years.
General Retirement
Information
The Annuities Institute
The Annuities Institute is a cooperative group of retirement planning
strategists covering 48 states in America. Their objective is to help
improve awareness of annuities as safe retirement investment strategies
yielding interest rates higher than traditional CD’s. This website is full
of useful calculators, direct links to major annuity companies, definitions,
case studies, and the option for personalized advice based on your unique
needs.
Decisions
About Retirement Living
This electronic brochure on Administration on Aging (AoA) excellent web site describes
the options available to older persons about where to live in retirement. The options
described include: 1) independent retirement housing, providing meals, activities,
house-keeping and maintenance to more active seniors; 2) "assisted living,"
providing housing along with supportive services; 3) housing providing nursing care
services for seniors who become ill or who require long term care. This brochure -- part
of AoA's ElderAction series --was
developed by the National Eldercare Institute on Long Term Care and Alzheimer's Disease at
the Suncoast Gerontology Center University of South Florida.
About.Com
Retirement Planner
Comprehensive site for retirement planning. There is a lot of information here that would
fit into many different categories.
Retirement
(Information from AARP's web site)
A simple and straight-forward discussion of retirement including planning options,
financial issues, and where to obtain additional information.
Motley
Fool Retirement Planning
How to retire in style. This collection draws on the expertise of a
specialist in retirement planning to help answer the important questions.
How much will you need for my retirement in order to live comfortably? What
are your goals? When should you start? What should you do? How much can you
count on from Social Security? What costs might you run into once you've
actually retired?
Setting
Priorities for Retirement Years Foundation (SPRY)
Provides information about the work of the Spry Foundation to help older people
prepare for better retirements. Although much is yet to come, this page has many useful
links to other resources on retirement.
The PowerCenter
Provides information about key issues affecting women in retirement including
Social Security, savings and assets, widowhood, divorce, and long term care
insurance. This site is a collaboration between WISER -- Women's Institute for
a Secure Retirement and the National Center on Women & Aging.
RetirementHomes.Com
A commercial site, but also the most comprehensive listing of retirement
facilities that we've encountered.
soc.retirement
A USENET newsgroup created by the Seniors Computer Information Project (SCIP) to
discuss all aspects of retirement, aging, gerontology, etc. You can get to it either
through a newsreader program or the SCIP home page (if your browser is configured to reach
your ISP's newsgroup server) at:
http://www.crm.mb.ca/scip/cafe.html
