Development Canada 2005a). Well-being is a concept that goes beyond good health to encompass physical and mental fitness as well … caregiver, and/or develop a health problem or disability. These transitions, especially when they occur around the same time …, access and costs of community support and home health care services. Finally, the paper will attempt to provide potential …

maintaining their incomes after retirement. Our main conclusions are as follows. First, in the two years immediately after … retirement the aftertax income replacement ratios average about two-thirds when calculated across all ages of retirement. Second …, the ratios tend to increase with the age of retirement. Third, the ratios increase with years in retirement, at least in …

: financial, personal and familial. Catalytic financial influences included employer programs and enrolment in retirement courses …, while job loss and unforeseen expenses were viewed as constraints. Personal influences such as health and age, as well as …

for the “average worker” after retirement. While we know a lot about the first issue, the second has received less …-income retirees to maintain their pre-retirement living standards. However, we also show that there is considerable variation in … replacement rates. By age 75, about a quarter of middle-income persons had retirement incomes of less than 60 percent of the …

early retirement incentive, a health problem, mandatory retirement, lack of control with too many job strains, or to provide … of retiring involuntarily was greater for those with poor health at retirement, the age of onset was over 55, higher … health selection into involuntary retirement depends on social location defined by age and education. Policy initiatives that …

supply while wives whose husband becomes unemployed reduce their labour supply, too. A decline in husband's health causes the … wife to reduce her working hours while husbands tend to increase their labour supply when facing a decline in wife's health …

analysis shows that benefits and health status are the two most important determinants of retirement, with effects that are …

Measures of retirement that take a cohort perspective are appealing since retirement patterns may change, and it would … be useful to have consistent measures that would make it possible to compare retirement patterns over time and between … measures of retirement and transition from work to retirement based on the two data sets are quite similar. …