When We're 64: Your Guide to a Great Later Life, Paperback

When We're 64 is a practical guide to what to do before we grow older to have a great later life.

This book includes all the essentials on working longer, how to fund retirement, volunteering, where to live and what kind of house you'll need. It covers how to stay healthy--and still live a full life if you develop a health condition--and reveals how your attitude towards aging could actually increase your lifespan. There are sections on relationships with family and friends, as well as caring for older relatives and how to navigate the system, plus a sensitive look at loneliness.

You're likely to live longer than you think--and I can tell you now, you're not prepared for it. Today's fifty-year-olds are likely to have an astounding 36 or more years to live. So if you're approaching later life, you need to think very differently about what those extra years will hold.

Filled with expert advice and new evidence and tips on how to age well, When We're 64 is an eminently readable light-hearted look at how to plan and prepare for what could be the best years of your life. When we're 64, will we be "wasting away," as the Beatles once put it, or will we be healthy, financially secure, and leading full and happy lives?

Louise Ansari works at the Centre for Ageing Better, an organisation dedicated to helping everyone enjoy a good later life. She loves all the usual middle aged stuff--gardening, travel, music, cooking (and her partner!). Louise is in her 50s and plans to enjoy every year to come.