Here’s what you can expect from this workshop, section by section:
- Orientation to retirement
- Identify concerns about retirement.
- Examine myths about aging.
- Discuss trends within Canada’s aging population.
- Pension plans and retirement income
- Identify and discuss federal government pension plans.
- Develop an understanding of RRSPs and tax regulations.
- Financial planning
- Examine and fill out income and expenditure forms.
- Complete a Financial Planning Review.
- Health and nutrition
- Identify ways to look after your health.
- Develop an action plan for better health.
- Housing and community services
- Discuss the kinds of housing that older Canadians like.
- Review the housing options you have after retirement.
- Look at the cost of housing in your community.
- Identify the kinds of community services that offer support to seniors.
- Relationships and changing lifestyles
- Discuss stress and identify how change contributes to stress.
- Identify ways to achieve good mental health.
- Legal affairs
- Make a list of all your assets (what you own).
- Decide on questions to ask a guest speaker.
- Free time and leisure
- Recognize the difference between the “work clock” and the “retirement clock”.
- Make a list of the kinds of activities you might be involved in when you retire.
- Examine the idea of a “good activity”.