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Hunt is the founder of the website Debt-Proof Living (also a book), the author of more than 20 titles on personal finance (7 Money Rules for Life), and a frequent guest on the Today show. In her latest title, she invites women to a practical and jargon-free conversation about retirement planning in which she shares six strategies she recommends for all women regardless of age.
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"Merit Prize winner, 19th Annual Mature Media Awards, National Media (Book) division. Written for older Americans, their Baby Boomer children, and everyone who cares for an older family member, this practical and comprehensive guide will help you build a strategy for coping with the unique legal, medical, financial, and personal challenges of aging. Jan Warner and Jan Collins, America's trusted experts on later life planning, put decades of experience...
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"This book provides service members, veterans, and their families with a critical roadmap for becoming financially independent prior to committing themselves to full-time retirement. It outlines how retiring military personnel in their early 40s can become happily semi-retired. Emphasizing the importance of family, lifestyle, and bridge careers, the book shows how to build a sound financial house based upon military benefits, savings, frugal living,...
4) Choose Costa Rica for retirement: retirement, travel and business opportunities for a new beginning
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Are you investigating retirement locales, looking to explore a new culture, or researching new business opportunities? This book is packed with practical and useful information as you start the next stage of life, with solid documentation on managing investments, real estate, the cost of living, medical care, and safety, whether you are relocating, traveling, or investing in Costa Rica. Six maps help you situate yourself. And as you tour or get settled,...
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"Aging in place takes some planning and foresight--which is why clinical psychologists and aging specialists Mary Languirand and Robert Bornstein have created this indispensable guidebook to take you through every step of the process. Useful, actionable advice on financial planning enables you to set aside the resources you need, while a detailed explanation of Universal Home Design will help you hire the right contractors and modify your home to...
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It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom...
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The residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life's most profound discoveries. What they eventually learn about themselves and one another will transform them all.
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Investment and personal finance experts Larry Swedroe and Kevin Grogan present comprehensive coverage of important aspects to think about as retirement approaches, including: Social Security, Medicare, investment planning strategy, portfolio maintenance, preparing heirs, retirement issues faced by women, the threat of elder financial abuse, going beyond financials to think about happiness, and more.
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When you hear the word retirement, you probably don't imagine yourself scrambling to pay your bills in your golden years. But for too many Americans, that's the fate that awaits unless they take steps now to plan for the future. Whether you're twenty-five and starting your first job or fifty-five and watching the career clock start to wind down, today is the day to get serious about your retirement. In Retire Inspired, Chris Hogan teaches that retirement...
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Here is a single-sit read than can change the course of your retirement. Written by Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor, a retirement and savings specialist, and a trustee to two retiree health-care trusts worth over $54 billion, How to Retire with Enough Money cuts through the confusion, misinformation, and bad policy-making that keeps us spending or saving poorly. It begins with acknowledging what a person or household actually needs...
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Summersdale
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2015.
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1 online resource (160 pages)
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This miscellany, packed with useful information, practical advice, and inspiring ideas from holidays to hobbies, and gardening to grandparenting, is perfect for anyone who has retired and wants to make the most of their newfound life of leisure. --Provided by publisher.
12) Playing with fire: financial independence retire early : how far would you go for financial freedom?
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"A detailed profile of an alternative lifestyle known as FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early), in which participants strive to retire in their 30s or 40s by living frugally, saving creatively, and investing efficiently. Participants in the movement share personal stories and financial strategies with the author"--
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"Most books about saving for retirement are based on simple formulas like "pay yourself first" or "save 10%" when the reality is that this just isn't always possible. Retirement expert Fred Vettese introduces a new way of saving that takes into account the demands on our income at various stages of life."--
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Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
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2013.
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1 online resource (184 pages)
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"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...
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Nova
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2010.
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1 online resource (304 pages)
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"Over 75% of the American public do not have a valid will. The Will and Living Will Toolkit provides a comprehensive source of understandable, professional-level information and forms for preparing a customized will and living will, including official state-specific living will forms. The forms and instructions are all written in straight-forward English, yet provide a wealth of hands-on tools for preparing these important legal documents. Included...
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Nova
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2010.
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1 online resource (384 pages)
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"Do you have an Estate Plan? Over 70 million Baby Boomers are on the verge of retirement and over 75% of them have no formal estate plan--no will, no living will, no health care power of attorney--no plan at all! The Estate Planning Toolkit provides a comprehensive source of understandable, professional-level information and forms for personal estate planning, including many official state-specific legal forms. The forms and instructions are all written...
18) Independence day: what I learned about retirement from some who've done it and some who never will
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Four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez explores the meaning of work and how it defines us in this captivating book that combines memoir, investigatory interviews, and practical application.
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Nova
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2010.
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1 online resource (320 pages)
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"This comprehensive and authoritative guide to powers of attorney provides legal forms for unlimited, limited, general, durable, financial, and health care powers of attorney, as well as revocation forms. Dozens of state-specific forms are also provided. Easy-to-understand instructions take the reader through each form's use and completion. All of the forms are included in this eBook in fillable PDF format, along with Adobe Reader software."--
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Planning for retirement isn't just about money. Retirement has changed dramatically since our parents' generation. People are living far longer, with far better health than ever before-both mentally and physically. Instead of slowing down, people are leaving their jobs feeling ready to take on the world.
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