title: The Retirement Boom: An All Inclusive Guide to Money, Life, and Health in Your Next Chapter
author: Catherine Allen
description: "When strategizing the transition plan for your retirement chapter, <i>The Retirement Boom</i> will give you strong support and assurance that you are thinking through all of the important issues surrounding taking the next steps to move forward to your next encore."<br />--Eugenia Ulasewicz, former President, Burberry, Inc.<br /><br />"This terrific resource offers an eloquent and insightful road map for making the so-called retirement years among the most exciting and fulfilling of your life--a time not of decline but of renewal, an opportunity to retool for work of deep significance. <i>The Retirement Boom</i> is a must-read companion for every Baby Boomer seeking to make the most of the great gift of longer life."<br />--Marc Freedman, founder/CEO, Encore.org and author of The Big Shift<br /><br />"For anyone thinking of retiring and changing their life--this is the book for you."<br />--<b>Billy Crystal</b>, actor, comedian, grandfather<br /><br />"If you're one of the many terrified by the 'R' word because it doesn't sit well with the way you see yourself, this is the book for you."<br />--Hara Estroff Marano, editor at large, Psychology Today, and author of A Nation of Wimps
zlib_text: > How to Retire with Enough Money  
  >  and How to Know What Enough Is
  
  >  **Teresa Ghilarducci**
  
  > Workman Publishing  
  > New York
  
  This book is dedicated to my mother,
  
  Marion Ghilarducci, and my son, Joseph O’Rourke, who strive every day on both
  ends of my generation to make their way and help others.
  
  Contents
  
   **Acknowledgments**
  
   **Introduction**
  
   **Chapter One:** ******Facing the Facts.**
  
  Or, if you’re not worried, you probably don’t understand the situation.
  
   **Chapter Two:** ******Bringing Your Picture into Focus.**
  
  Or, how to estimate the retirement income you need and calculate what you’re
  likely to have.
  
   **Chapter Three:** ******Working.**
  
  Or, will the job market be through with you before you’re through with it?
  
   **Chapter Four:** ******Saving, Spending, and Debt.**
  
  Or, how to keep your head above water in “the richest nation in the world!”
  
   **Chapter Five:** ******Investing and Allocation.**
  
  Or, “I have this Guy . . .”
  
   **Chapter Six:** ******Voting and Civi