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New Book - The Canadian Retirement Guide

Just about to digest this new book!

The Canadian Retirement Guide: A Comprehensive Handbook on Aging, Retirement, Caregiving & Health (How to Plan and Pay for it). Jill O'Donnell, Graham McWaters & John A. Page 2004 -Insomniac Press, Toronto. $21.95 CDN

Congratulations to Jill O'Donnell who is the founder of Complete Geriatric Care & founder and host of The Elder Connection, a monthly networking breakfast series for professionals whose services address the growing elder care needs of the Greater Toronto Area.

Stay tuned to this journal for the book review later this month.

Get the Message!

If you missed the message in the "Theme Park Headline" in the header of the Research & Writing page of this web journal, then here it is!

A Star Burning View
Over the last two decades of fast paced change, speed driven business cycles, and stressed out workplaces - your career may have exactly been “a swift running course”.

Perhaps the pollution of careerism flooding web sites and bookshelves has distorted your view of career, and now in later life - this is the time you want to integrate your work into your world in a productive way on your terms.

Health being well, as we Boomers journey through our later life career over the next decade; we face longevity like no other generation in history.

And the concept of retirement born in the Industrial Age model has new translation. We do have options.

If Retirement is that “sacred place” on life’s journey, then how (depending on your age in 2004), will you spend another potential 20 years or more - burning your star across the heavens?

Executives and business professionals – “star burning” on that later life pilgrimage, contact Change Rangers – “the leading voice on career longevity”.