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When retirement feels like being forgotten by society

Everyone says these are supposed to be the golden years but I just feel old and irrelevant and like the world has moved on without me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural narratives about aging conflict with the lived experience of feeling discarded.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Retirement and the gift of unstructured time?”

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