Encore.org asked respondents to its 2014 national survey to think about what they valued in paid work and what concerns they might have about a future encore career. To understand how reality measured up to expectations, people already in encore careers were asked to compare their encore...

Encore.org commissioned national surveys in 2008, 2011, and 2014 to explore and document changing trends in how people in midlife think about the coming decades. Responses showed that more people believe that giving back is a vital concern of post-midlife, and increasingly say that encore...