ABSTRACT
This chapter describes another major challenge to well-being that typically occurs in old age – retirement. The chapter details the effects of retirement on a person’s roles, relationships, daily routines, self-views, and beliefs about how they may be perceived differently by others once they become a non-worker. Strategies clinicians can use to help people following retirement are presented, including helping people form a life structure with predictable routines, keep to elements of their past to maintain a sense of self-continuity, and manage the increased amount of discretionary time that is likely to now be available.
