Edited by Steven S. Shagrin

Now you can make informed decisions about retirement, with this up-to-date and thorough resource. The volume delivers guidance in four key areas: housing, health care, retirement income and finances, and legal concerns. Each chapter provides a wealth of useful information and resources.

Unique to Facts About Retiring is its presentation of housing alternatives on a state-by-state basis, alongside facts about the state’s climate, cost of living, taxes, major transportation, travel and tourism, and more.

Housing options are organized by categories: continuing care retirement communities (also called life care communities), residential health care facilities (also called assisted living or personal care), independent living, and residential/adult/resort communities. Readers will use this reference to learn about rates, accommodations, services, and amenities, as well as the facts on licensing, accreditation, and more.

The volume is also enhanced with lists of elder hostel and other travel-related agencies, as well as retirement counselors and consultants. Readers will also find planning tools, such as worksheets and questionnaires, to evaluate communities. A glossary, bibliography, and index are included.

About the Editor
Steven S. Shagrin is president of Planning For Life, a Holistic Life Transition, Life Planning & Retirement Education company in Alamo, California. With degrees in accounting and finance, he also has a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law with an emphasis in tax and estate planning, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1981. He is a Certified Financial PlannerTM practitioner, a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor
designee, a Certified Retirement Counselor designee, and a Certified Enhanced Lifestyle Planner designee.

◘ 777 pp.
◘ 2001
◘ ISBN 0-8242-0969-9
◘ $120
◘ $140 (outside U.S. and Canada)