What will you do for the rest of your life? is the toughest question for many Baby Boomers.
Carolyn Ausman devoted the past few years to researching and planning how best to portray issues that are paramount in the lives of Baby Boomers and others, including centurions. "Our studies have shown that inactive retirement is no longer considered a reward for one's lifelong work efforts for several reasons," she said.
For one, people are simply living longer than in past generations.
"The fundamental issue that has changed is we're living into our 80s and 90s," said James Ausman, who has been a neurosurgery professor at UCLA and other universities, former head of neurosurgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and editor of the international neurosurgical journal Surgical Neurology. "Those times can be very healthful, very vigorous," he said. "But unless you think about it and plan for it, it won't happen automatically."
The Ausmans share information about everything from coping with rising medical costs and fewer retirement benefits to enhancing the quality of life on their website: www.leadinggen.org.
Source: The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA, May 20, 2007
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