EVENT: RETIREMENT CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES
Online event presentation “Desafíos y estrategias para la jubilación” en Aging 2.0 (30/9/20 – 19:00h)
Free registration (Click here)
Dr. Bartolomé Freire Arteta
Retiring is not just living without working. People in retirement face distinctive challenges and need to renew their goals for continued self-fulfilment and enjoyment. How to meet the challenges of retirement? The way to overcome these challenges will depend on each individual’s history and character and their interaction with their environment. To the extent that they’re committed to pursuing their plans, they do develop new roles and relationships that show that they can live differently.
The better they know what kind of retirement they want, the more likely they are to make it happen. Planning for retirement involves reviewing the personal meaning of work, recognizing what personal needs it fulfilled and which ones can be a guide for the new path forward.
- It’s a prolonged stage in which good physical and psychological states are hopefully preserved. The human brain is characterized by its plasticity and can maintain a certain ability to adapt to new circumstances.
- Today’s retired population is more active and better educated than our ancestors and therefore expects more benefits from retirement.
- In our part of the world we have multiple opportunities for learning and leisure.
- Furthermore, with age comes a greater awareness that life is indeed limited, which makes time more of a precious commodity and making the most of it becomes imperative.
The culmination of adapting to retirement involves filling the void left over by a previous dedication to work with new commitments and activities that can reshape the retiree’s identity, and bring meaning and satisfaction to their new period of life. This process involves a renewal, both consciously and unconsciously, of the perspectives that retirees have of themselves and of the world.
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