Live Smart After 50!: The Experts' Guide to Life Planning for Uncertain Times

Live Smart After 50! is welcome and essential handbook for anyone at midlife and beyond. It provides lucid, motivating responses to the challenges of aging in the 21st century: the knowledge and tools to shift attitudes, update skills and shape a smart map for a future of security, wellbeing, meaning and new possibilities. In a unique collaboration, thirty-three of the nation's top experts in life planning and positive aging distill the most critical issues. From finding work, community, creativity, purpose and legacy to financing your dreams, making sure your voice is heard, anticipating the challenges of aging, and living with purpose and vitality, Live Smart After 50! offers friendly, focused, forward-thinking and action-oriented help. Rich in practical experience and wisdom, self-exploration exercises, and diverse resources, Live Smart After 50! is a companionable guide for planning and preparing for the second half of life. It will help readers get the big picture, identify and reduce risks, expand choices, and prepare to take advantage of - rather than fear - the future. Live Smart After 50! is jam-packed with tools that will enable readers to: * think about and strategically plan for the reality of a longer life * let go of old expectations in order to make room for new opportunities * create a life inventory as a way to more fully understand how to see and chart the future * think about how they want to live and who they want to be, in this second chapter of life

Life Planning Network is a national community of professionals and organizations from diverse disciplines dedicated to helping people navigate the second half of life. The contributors who collaborated in writing Live Smart After 50! all LPN members include:

Barbara Abramowitz, Bradley T. Baumann, Bill Brisk, Elizabeth Craig, Helen Dennis, Doug Dickson, Kendall Dudley, Natalie Eldridge, Bruce Frankel, Judith-Kate Friedman, Andrea Gallagher, Sara Zeff Geber, Joanne Hadlock, Dick Haid, Kit Harrington Hayes, Jan Hively, Margaret "Peggy" Hothem, Elizabeth W. Jetton, Karma Kitaj, Donna Krone, Moira Lanier, Carleen MacKay, Fred Mandell, Dorian Mintzer, Meg Newhouse , Ron Pevny, Mary Radu, Renee Lee Rosenberg, Donna Schempp, Paula K. Solomon, Candy Spitz, Roberta K. Taylor, Chuck Yanikoski.