Description:

Are you approaching your retirement years and wondering if you have enough money to stop working? Are you afraid of poor health, high medical costs, and outliving your savings?

Well, stop worrying—and start planning for the 21st century retirement! Retirement Game-Changers helps you make smart choices about your finances, health, and lifestyle as you transition from your work life into your retirement years.

Filled with invaluable resources, checklists, and wit, Retirement Game-Changers shares ground-breaking tools and research to help you enjoy a long, healthy, and financially secure life.

In this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll discover how to:

• Generate recession-proof retirement income that lasts the rest of your life.
• Enhance your health and longevity.
• Protect against ruinous medical and long-term care costs.
• Lead a fulfilling and socially connected life.

Retirement Game-Changers includes the following features:

* The ground-breaking Spend Safely in Retirement Strategy.
* Traps for the unwary on a variety of topics, including retirement income and investment strategies, Social Security, medical insurance selection, health care, where to live, and how to nurture your well-being.
* Action steps, plus mistakes to avoid and strategies to consider.
* A Retirement Reality Check to help assess your overall retirement readiness.
* Access to three bonus chapters on retirementgamechangers.com to help you implement the strategies learned in the book, including finding professional help, using behavioral economics and psychology to help you succeed with your planning, and insights for navigating tax rules.

Retirement Game-Changers is your road map for planning the most important period of your life. Take charge—and make your retirement years count!

Review

" Retirement Game-Changers is the single best collection of actionable advice I've read on retirement. Steve Vernon's brilliance is apparent in his ability to take retirement subjects that are typically communicated with mind-numbing complexity and drill the critical points down to something easy to understand." -- Allan Roth , AARP Money contributor and author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street

"Retirement Game-Changers will help you navigate what could be the most fulfilling--or the most challenging--years of your life. In an engaging, thoughtful way, Steve Vernon offers detailed, practical advice on how to set realistic goals and achieve financial security, but he gives equal weight to your 'social portfolio' and how lifestyle decisions can shape a joyful, productive and comfortable retirement. Vernon's 'action steps' that wrap up each chapter are worth the price of admission alone--and the retirement tips from his dog are priceless." -- Rick Smith , former Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek

"Retirement Game-Changers is a terrific resource to help older workers make critical decisions to maximize the vast array of new opportunities brought about by the longevity revolution."-- Ken Dychtwald , PhD, author of A New Purpose: Redefining Money, Family, Work, Retirement and Success

"Steve Vernon knocks it out of the park with his new book, Retirement Game-Changers. His detailed research and positive approach make the daunting notion of navigating the challenges many boomers will tackle in the years ahead, well, manageable. He guides you through simple strategies to help you face the fear of outliving savings and worries about an uncertain economy, paying for medical bills, and finding ways to continue to work in some fashion as a pillar of a retirement plan. But this is far more than a book about your wealth. Steve also offers rich advice on ways to boost your health and well-being that will give you the confidence to navigate the next chapter of your life with a smart plan and a can-do spirit."-- Kerry Hannon , New York Times columnist and author of Great Jobs for Everyone 50+

"Steve Vernon has an uncanny ability to distill the best practices from complex research about retirement income planning into practical and usable advice for those seeking to position their assets for better retirement outcomes. His new book includes unbiased coverage of various retirement income tools, as well as further insights on the non-financial aspects of enjoying a successful and productive retirement."-- Wade Pfau, PhD, CFA , Professor of Retirement Income at The American College and Founder of RetirementResearcher.com

About the Author

For more than 40 years, Steve Vernon, FSA, has analyzed, researched, and communicated about the most difficult retirement topics, including finances, health and lifestyle. He worked in the private sector for 30 years as a consulting actuary with Watson Wyatt and Mercer, helping Fortune 1000 employers manage and communicate their retirement programs. During that time, he worked on the front lines of the extraordinary shift that's taken place in retirement plans, as employers switched from traditional, defined benefit pension plans to 401(k) and other defined contribution plans. Steve has served for more than five years in his encore career as a Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity. Steve is also president of Rest-of-Life Communications, a company he founded that delivers retirement planning workshops and conducts retirement education campaigns. He has never sold insurance, annuities or investments, which enables him to be unbiased in his writing and recommendations. Steve writes a regular column for CBS MoneyWatch where he addresses the critical topics facing people in retirement. A Fellow in the Society of Actuaries, Steve graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Irvine, with a double major in mathematics and social science. Steve lives in Oxnard, California, with his wife, Melinda, where they're following the advice from his books for their own retirement and rest-of-life. For more information, visit www.restoflife.com.