Aba/AARP Get the Most Out of Retirement - by Sally Balch Hurme (Paperback)

About the Book

This book will find a wide appeal for those planning their retirement, and professionals who work with retiring clients, including accountants, investment advisors, and attorneys, with its simple step-by-step approach as well as more than 75 checklists, forms, and planning templates.

Book Synopsis

Whether you're planning for or already living in retirement, there's a lot that goes into making the most of every day. From crafting a budget and managing your money to last a lifetime to simplifying your life so you can really focus on what you want to do next, Get the Most Out of Retirement walks you through the process.

You'll get step-by-step, practical tips to:

• Nurture new and old relationships
• Find meaning through volunteer and work opportunities
• Take classes and pursue hobbies
• Decide where to live
• Retire abroad
• Get organized and clean out the clutter
• Stay within your budget
• Simplify the legal paperwork
• Live healthfully
• And more!

Our generation has decades of [bonus] years ahead that our parents didn't have. This is the one book you'll need not just to manage the business of life wisely but to make your retirement rich with health, happiness, and meaning.

About the Author

Sally Hurme is an elder law attorney and author. While with AARP for 23 years she worked on a wide variety of issues including advance care planning, surrogate decision making, consumer fraud, elder abuse, and financial security. Ms. Hurme was an advisor to the Uniform Law Commission in the drafting of the uniform guardianship jurisdiction act and Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship and other Protective Arrangements Act. She also was a member of the U.S. State Department delegation that drafted the Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults. She has authored 20 law review articles and book chapters on various elder law issues and taught elder law at George Washington University Law School. She is author of the ABA/AARP Checklist series: Checklist for My Family, Checklist for Family Survivors, Checklist for Family Caregivers, Get the Most Out of Retirement, and Wise Moves. She received her law degree from the Washington College of Law at American University, Washington, D.C., and her bachelor's degree from Newcomb College, Tulane University in New Orleans. Sally currently lives in Bridgewater, VA.