So You Think You Are Ready To Retire?: What You REALLY Want to Know Before You Take The Leap

Noted Canadian retirement expert Barry LaValley examines the non-financial aspects of your transition into retirement. This retirement book focuses on preparing your mind for retirement and helps you understand the retirement psychology, retirement health, retirement relationships and the role that money plays in retirement planning. The goal of the book is to give readers a retirement planning tool that can be updated on an ongoing basis by both pre-retirement planners and retirees. Special information is provided for both Canadian pre-retiree planners and Canadian retirees who seek to understand what successful retirees do. The author looks at the best retirement research available in Canada and throughout the world and uses that Third Age research to help readers devise an effective Third Age Retirement plan. Note, this retirement planning book contains many retirement planning exercises for readers as part of the book along with many "Did you know's?" and "Have you thought about's?" relating to your retirement.

Barry LaValley is President, Retirement Lifestyle Center and has studied the retirement transition in North America, Australia and Great Britain for the past twenty years. His company is a research, education and advocacy organization focused on the non-financial aspects of the transition into retirement for aging boomers. Barry's approach is to look at the psychological and emotional aspects of aging; he then uses the research available from around the globe to help people understand their passage to this next phase of life. His work in the financial services industry starting in 1980 helped him to build his model for the transition into retirement. He has contributed extensively to the text books on retirement for Moodys Analytics as well as other prominent publications. Barry conducts his work around the globe and speaks and writes extensively on retirement issues. In addition, he has worked with several major financial institutions in both Canada and the US to help build client-facing programs on retirement. Barry and his wife Melissa live in Nanaimo, British Columbia.