How to Live Healthier & Happier & Longer in Retirement

While retirement can be a time of freedom and excitement, it is also fraught with many health changes and emotional challenges.

Brad Bickford, Board Certified Diplomate and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, shows us how to tackle the challenges of aging in retirement and identifies exactly what we can do to address them. Using research data, questionnaires, and worksheets, he discusses:

How to Live Healthier & Happier & Longer in Retirement covers:

How to decide when one is ready to retire.

How to keep our brains healthy and slow down a possible onset of dementia.

How critical exercise is, how often we need to do it, and specifically what kind. He shares why sitting too long for seniors can shorten their life.

How to improve your sleep and why sleep is essential for our health and happiness.

What research and science have found about the importance of socialising to prevent emotional distress, premature dementia, and mortality.

How everyday personal care products affect our body's health and longevity.

What specific communication skills are essential to enhance relationships.

How changing the way we think about something will improve our happiness.

How we have to eat more nutritionally as our aging body changes.

Having a purpose and spiritual focus is very helpful for our emotional well-being.

The importance of regular laughter and humour in our daily lives.

Fascinating physiological differences between men and women, like which sex takes longer to digest the same meal?

And many relevant topics to seniors like sex, drinking, lessening anxiety, bolstering marriage happiness, what to do about aging body physiology changes, and how to deal with grief and loss.