Flourishing or Floundering During Retirement
Personal Perspective: Is retirement a social death or a rebirth? Key points Retirement carries a risk of what sociologists call social death. Social death is not inevitable. Remaining socially engaged is the key to flourishing in retirement. Social death can be turned into social rebirth, setting the occasion for a meaningful retirement. At the end of August of this year, following a long (45 years) and rewarding career as a college professor, I retired from my position of Professor of...
