The author used role theory, continuity theory, and the life course perspective to form hypotheses regarding the different retirement transition and adjustment patterns and how different individual and contextual variables related to those patterns. The longitudinal data of 2 samples (n1=994;...

Der Beitrag gibt einen kurzen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Alterssicherungssysteme in Großbritannien und Deutschland und zeigt den derzeitigen sozioökonomischen Status der älteren Menschen an. Ausgehend von einer sehr kurzen und nur die Grundkonzeption charakterisierenden Darstellung...

Fuelled by changes to UK pensions policy over the last decade, most notably automatic enrolment into workplace pensions, an increasing number of people save for their retirement in defined contribution pension pots. Due to the end of compulsory annuitisation in 2015, known as 'Pension Freedoms',...

Retirement brings with it the promises of leisure and freedom as well as the risks of boredom and isolation. When retirees rid their schedules of anything resembling the kinds of obligations that once had been imposed by work, they will experience a sometimes-uncomfortable absence of structure....