Big Shift Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

Name: Big Shift Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
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ISBN: 9781610390996

ISBN-10: 1610390997

ISBN-13: 9781610390996

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Authors: Marc Freedman

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Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as “the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are – an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years.InThe Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society when, in reality, most of the nation’s 78 million boomers are not getting old … at least not yet. The whole 60- to 80-year-old period is simply new territory, he writes, and the people…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 4/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English




An AARP Discount-and Two Cribs



One River at a Time



A World Out of Whack



New-Stage Thinking



The Next Map of Life



Routes of Passage



Ten Steps Toward a New Stage



The Generativity Revolution


Acknowledgments



Eight Stories from the Next Stage


Notes


Recommended Reading List


The Big Shift Discussion Guide: Getting the Conversation Started


Index