Retirement Game-Changers
Strategies for a Healthy, Financially Secure, and Fulfilling Long Life
Plan for the 21st century retirement! Retirement Game-Changers helps you navigate the critical decisions you need to make as you transition from your career job into your retirement years. These decisions will have a lasting impact on your quality of life for the rest of your life.
Compared to previous generations, we face significant challenges to our financial security, health, and well-being, including increased lifespans, the decline of traditional pension plans, periodic stock market crashes, and skyrocketing health and long-term care costs. At the same time, we have access to new products and services to enhance our financial security and research that shows how to increase the odds of living long, healthy lives.
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 the 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!
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saying…
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Steve Vernon is back, and he’s done it again, better than ever! As always, he gets retirement planning right: putting your money in service to your life, not the other way around. I’ve studied Social Security for 41 years, but I learn still more in five minutes from Steve’s fresh viewpoint.”
“This comprehensive guide is packed with expert insights, real-life stories, practical tips, pitfalls to avoid, and helpful resources. Retirement Game-Changers is a book I will use to plan my own retirement.”
“Longer life expectancies are in so many ways a ‘good news’ story. But many retirees are reasonably concerned about outliving their money. Retirement Game-Changers provides concrete strategies for financial stability and sustainability in retirement. The book also weaves in valuable perspectives on other aspects of retirement wellness. It’s an all-too-rare guide to living well in retirement that’s truly holistic.”
“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.”
“Retirement Game-Changers is a must-read for those wanting to create a comprehensive plan for their future. It’s about money and much more. This unique book helps individuals get ready to plan the rest of their lives, integrating the financial and important non-financial considerations of the retirement experience. It’s a winner!”
“Retirement Game-Changers provides essential information and a wealth of resources to help older workers (or their children) navigate the financial, health and social aging systems. Steve Vernon’s practical guide offers a positive path to a longer life, and both women and men will benefit from his guidance.”
“Retirement Game-Changers tackles a critical planning issue facing many Americans—their rising and unknown longevity. The sections on retirement income and Social Security alone are worth the price of admission, but there’s so much more. There’s no one better equipped to help people navigate these challenges than Steve Vernon.”
“This book is a game-changer for anyone seeking advice to plan for retirement. Steve Vernon offers practical and sensible advice on everything from investing for retirement to choosing the best place to live, with plenty of helpful hints along the way.”
“Retirement Game-Changers is a great book for people thinking about their own retirement and for people who are helping parents and friends. Steve Vernon is a practical, down-to-earth writer, who brings expertise from his years of consulting for employee benefit plans, retirement education and personal experience. I recommend that people start using it about 10 years before retirement age.”
“Steve Vernon’s easy-to-read Retirement Game-Changers provides wisdom about the many ways retirees and pre-retirees can make smart choices about money, health and social engagement to build the retirement you want.”
See what
people are
saying…
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Steve Vernon is back, and he’s done it again, better than ever! As always, he gets retirement planning right: putting your money in service to your life, not the other way around. I’ve studied Social Security for 41 years, but I learn still more in five minutes from Steve’s fresh viewpoint.”
“This comprehensive guide is packed with expert insights, real-life stories, practical tips, pitfalls to avoid, and helpful resources. Retirement Game-Changers is a book I will use to plan my own retirement.”
“Longer life expectancies are in so many ways a ‘good news’ story. But many retirees are reasonably concerned about outliving their money. Retirement Game-Changers provides concrete strategies for financial stability and sustainability in retirement. The book also weaves in valuable perspectives on other aspects of retirement wellness. It’s an all-too-rare guide to living well in retirement that’s truly holistic.”
“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.”
“Retirement Game-Changers is a must-read for those wanting to create a comprehensive plan for their future. It’s about money and much more. This unique book helps individuals get ready to plan the rest of their lives, integrating the financial and important non-financial considerations of the retirement experience. It’s a winner!”
“Retirement Game-Changers provides essential information and a wealth of resources to help older workers (or their children) navigate the financial, health and social aging systems. Steve Vernon’s practical guide offers a positive path to a longer life, and both women and men will benefit from his guidance.”
“Retirement Game-Changers tackles a critical planning issue facing many Americans—their rising and unknown longevity. The sections on retirement income and Social Security alone are worth the price of admission, but there’s so much more. There’s no one better equipped to help people navigate these challenges than Steve Vernon.”
“This book is a game-changer for anyone seeking advice to plan for retirement. Steve Vernon offers practical and sensible advice on everything from investing for retirement to choosing the best place to live, with plenty of helpful hints along the way.”
“Retirement Game-Changers is a great book for people thinking about their own retirement and for people who are helping parents and friends. Steve Vernon is a practical, down-to-earth writer, who brings expertise from his years of consulting for employee benefit plans, retirement education and personal experience. I recommend that people start using it about 10 years before retirement age.”
“Steve Vernon’s easy-to-read Retirement Game-Changers provides wisdom about the many ways retirees and pre-retirees can make smart choices about money, health and social engagement to build the retirement you want.”