Boomeration

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Boomeration

• The Best Is Yet To Come!
• Arkansas Employee Assistance Program

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• Boomers Want Action-Packed Retirement, Some Want
  to Continue Work

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• "This is a generation that wants to continue to
  rock and roll, not sit around in rocking chairs."
  
• Dave Schreiner, vice president of active adult
  business development for Pulte Homes

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Do Boomers Have a Too-Late List?

• If you made a Too-Late List, what would be on
  it?
• Be a Broadway star?
• Play in a major league baseball game?
• Be President of the United States?
• Learn to run?
• Make pottery?

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Now, take another look at your list

• Have you mentally moved a great deal of life into
  the 'too late' category?
• You are not too old to learn new thingsits
  possible that you may learn slower.so what?
• Since when was youth a prerequisite for learning
  a language, learning to bake puff pastry, playing
  boogie-woogie piano, or learning to swim?

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Bucket List

• Why not take some of those things off of the Too
  Late List and create a Bucket List?

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• Make a list of your goals, whether its something
  youve always dreamt of accomplishing or just a
  short-term goal like being more organized. Add
  each item to your Bucket List.

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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain
characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel
Johnson
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• Along with remaining physically fit, you may want
  to consider ways to remain intellectually fit.

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• Rule Number One Read daily.

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• Rule Number Two Learn ways to compensate for
  momentary lapses in memory.

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• Rule Number Three Take advantage of your
  creativity.

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Looking Ahead Upcoming Boomeration Topics

• Elder Law
• Financial Management as you approach retirement
• Continuum of Care
• Stage of Life Issues/Coping