Creative Retirement for Women: A solution based guide for couples and singles - Softcover

Johnson, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500705926 ISBN 13: 9781500705923

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Creative Retirement for Women is a solution based guide for the most common problems of retirement for women and couples. The book provides practical solutions for a wide variety of difficult retirement topics. As a therapist, the author's focus is to help you discover your personal traits and interests for designing your individual plan for maximum health benefits. Learn how to manage an unprepared partner to save your retirement. Establish creative income with existing skills to benefit your budget and longevity. Downsize your home while balancing your budget without sacrifice. Plan for better health and greater quality of live by making small lifestyle adjustments. Discover how improved health also improves your financial health. Learn safe and sustainable investing for the long term.

About this title

About the Author

Lee Johnson(1954-) was born in Washington state, but relocated to San Francisco when two years old. He was raised and influenced during the cultural movement of the 1960s and 70s. His interest in mental health developed out of a curiosity to understand the colorful street people of that era. This led to a Bachelor Degree in Psychology from San Francisco State University. He graduated from Fresno State University with a Masters of Social Work with a psychiatric focus in 1978. He published "A Pilot Study of Personality Type Change" as a result of thesis research in 1980. This began his counseling career that led to becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. This licensure allowed him to conduct therapy and marriage counseling in private practice. He extended his therapy skills by graduating from the Biofeedback Institute of Los Angeles. This allowed him to treat high blood pressure, anxiety, headaches, insomnia and related psycho-physiological disorders. A transition to medical social work on cardiac and medical-surgical units required bereavement family counseling. This developed into working for a hospice doing death and dying counseling. Lee credits the hospice experience for enlightening him to the end of life issues. After that, he established a workers compensation private practice treating and advocating for injured employees. He became an instructor/counselor for a diet clinic advising on mental heath issues and eating. He established a stress reduction and anxierty management program for the diet center. Due to broad interests, Lee began to study business investments and became a registered representative or stockbroker. Combining this with an insurance license allowed him to offer annuities for 401k and 403b tax deferred retirement plans. He then applied stock market knowledge to the real estate markets as an investor. But, missing the depth of human contact, he returned to counseling. He continues to do volunteer counseling and enjoys continual research and study in gerontology and retirement areas. The cumulation of all this diverse experience is evidenced in his current work for women.

Review

Practical and Realistic By Andreja Harde on October 19, 2014 Format: Paperback This is an easy to understand and easy to follow book written by an obviously uniquely qualified author. The writer presents tangible information in everyday language and addresses the female retirement needs and dreams from holistic standpoint, including practical emotional and financial aspects. He offers realistic, easy to follow, achievable solutions which most of us can benefit from greatly, and in addition touches on various other aspects of retirement living. In general, this book is a useful, simple to navigate, very well written pleasant read. --Amazon.com

but organized so that readers can easily pick and choose those chapters that interest them By marian j sanders on October 2, 2014 Format: Kindle Edition In clear language, Lee Johnson details all aspects about retirement for women. He considers not only practical issues, such as Social Security benefits and estate planning, but the physical, psychological and social effects of retirement on women, and how to deal with them. Many personal anecdotes enliven his writing. His information is comprehensive, but organized so that readers can easily pick and choose those chapters that interest them, and use his book as a reference tool to navigate the complex and difficult questions that are likely to confront them during retirement years. --Amazonn.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500705926
• ISBN 13: 9781500705923
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 196