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Miller, Jane – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
A consideration of how reading may change in retirement and old age, demonstrated in relation to five books by women.
Descriptors: Older Adults, Retirement, Reading Habits, Recreational Reading
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Beck, Bernard – Multicultural Perspectives, 2004
Far too many Americans and people in other societies face the pain of losing work, so that deprivation is not a rare event. But sometimes, and especially in a popular culture, it is not the job that is lost, but the promise that the job and the one who performed it would be valued. The calamity is to be good at one's trade and to find that it…
Descriptors: Retirement, Films, Popular Culture, Change
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Greller, Martin M.; Stroh, Linda K. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1995
Increased turbulence in the workplace is affecting the careers of an aging workforce: changed skill needs, relations with employers and coworkers, and attitudes toward retirement and aging. Study of careers beyond midlife should bear in mind that retirement is an individual decision and the aging process is unique to the individual. (SK)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Career Change, Change, Individual Differences