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Dance until the Music Stops: An Inspiring Guide to Extended Life
By: Esther C. GroppereBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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Life expectancy worldwide increased by thirty years in the twentieth century. Even so, many soon-to-be retirees don't expect to live decades beyond eighty. They typically haven't thought much about what their lives will be like after retirement, except to be glad to be done with rising at the break of dawn, punching time clocks, and fighting crowds on lanes or trains. But after two or three years of retirement, the days become dull, and their bodies become listless.
In contrast, other retirees engaged with the world are seeking out fulfilling projects and programs. These people are looking for things to do-ways to use their newfound years to fulfill old dreams. Once they did, they did not describe life as a half full (or half empty) bucket; they needed two buckets to hold the summation of their lives!
These are the people who inspired the writing of Dance until the Music Stops . With personal experiences, research, anecdotes, insights, and humor, author Esther C. Gropper developed this guide to help seniors enjoy their retirement and learn the "what's what" of extended life.
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| Title of eBook: Dance until the Music Stops: An Inspiring Guide to Extended Life | |
| Release Date: 12-21-2011 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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Dance until the Music Stops: An Inspiring Guide to Extended Life
Chapter One
You Are Top Priority
Jacques Brel, playwright and lyricist of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, identified the two important dates in life: your birth and your death. That said, it's up to you to fill in the drama and comedy that represent "your hour upon the stage and then is heard no more," except in the memory of those who knew you.
How can we fill that time?
Old answers are no longer viable.
We are the first senior adult population with what can be considered an extended generational life span. We are a new generation of an older population with no previous models before us. We have longer lives, stronger lives, and active minds and bodies seeking a new approach to the added years. Quite possibly, this is an evolutionary step up in human development. Yes, we have had elders living into the 90's and 100's before but never as notably as in the contemporary period.
Life expectancy worldwide increased by thirty years in the twentieth century. In the United States, it might be slightly higher. Available census figures show an increase of 4.5 million people in the United States since 1998. The population 65 and over in the year 2000 will increase from 35 million to 40 million (a 15 percent increase) and then to 55 million in 2010 (a 36 percent increase for that decade). One of the messages to be deduced is that society must find ways and means to make longevity a benefit or blessing, not a burden.
The generation now in their seventies, eighties, and nineties is novel. Extended age opens new passages never traversed before; new questions and soluti
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