When We're 64: Your Guide to a Great Later Life - Softcover

Ansari, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472960688 ISBN 13: 9781472960689

Publisher: Green Tree, 2019

Synopsis

When We're 64 is a practical guide to what to do before we grow older to have a great later life.

This book includes all the essentials on working longer, how to fund retirement, volunteering, where to live and what kind of house you'll need. It covers how to stay healthy--and still live a full life if you develop a health condition--and reveals how your attitude towards aging could actually increase your lifespan. There are sections on relationships with family and friends, as well as caring for older relatives and how to navigate the system, plus a sensitive look at loneliness.

You're likely to live longer than you think--and I can tell you now, you're not prepared for it. Today's fifty-year-olds are likely to have an astounding 36 or more years to live. So if you're approaching later life, you need to think very differently about what those extra years will hold.

Filled with expert advice and new evidence and tips on how to age well, When We're 64 is an eminently readable light-hearted look at how to plan and prepare for what could be the best years of your life. When we're 64, will we be "wasting away," as the Beatles once put it, or will we be healthy, financially secure, and leading full and happy lives?

About this title

About the Author:

Louise Ansari works at the Centre for Ageing Better, an organisation dedicated to helping everyone enjoy a good later life. She loves all the usual middle aged stuff--gardening, travel, music, cooking (and her partner!). Louise is in her 50s and plans to enjoy every year to come.

Review:

“An easy to read excellent guide, full of practical advice to help prepare us for a happy and healthy older age.” ―Diana Moran, Green Goddess

“A very important book for the next phase in people's lives” ―Professor Sir Muir Gray

“This uplifting playbook is essential preparation for later life. Grounded in the latest research, it guides us through all the practical steps needed to face the future positively – and that's the key to health and happiness in our sixties and beyond.” ―Celia Dodd, author of Not Fade Away

“A new stage of life is emerging as longer lives give us extra years between middle age and old age. When We're 64 provides a guide to navigating the new opportunities that lie ahead.” ―Andrew Scott, co-author of The 100-Year Life

“An indispensable book by a leading anti-ageing expert” ―Mail on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Green Tree
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1472960688
• ISBN 13: 9781472960689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208