Insuring Overall Retirement Health

Ahhh!    (Photo by Christian Barrow)

Health insurance is very much on people’s minds when it comes to retirement planning.  This generally focuses upon medical coverage for physical concerns.

There is far less planning for overall retirement goals.  What will be done to fill those days that were formerly spent at the office?  What incentives will there now be to get up and go? What sense of purpose and meaning will now prevail?

Such questions are key to planning for overall health.  Pondering them within a realistic framework of physical and economic possibilities is even more important than checking the daily stock reports.  It is even more important than deliberating whether to claim social security sooner or later.

The Motley Fool reports that “retirees are 40% more likely than workers to suffer from clinical depression… feeling isolated, restless, and unfulfilled in the absence of a job.”  Preretirement vision quests can go a long way toward reversing this unhappy trend.

Resources

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/the-1-retirement-danger-no-one-warns-you-about/ar-AAzJtj2?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=BHEA000

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