Retirement planning

If you were able to continue your present job until you reached your planned retirement date, would you be happy to do so ... 

This option has special appeal to those who have always harbored an entrepreneurial spirit but elected to work for someone else. Winding up without a job a few years before a planned retirement date forces many of these individuals to take the risk they should have taken earlier. In exercising this option, the following steps are recommended ... 

Your estimated annual pension at planned retirement... 

Florida s Planned Retirement Communities Marketing Age, Religion, Ethnicity and Lifestyle... 

This chapter will briefly describe some of Florida s large scale, planned retirement communities and then examine the marketing of these communities to retirees, with special attention to marketing to various specific population groups. Next, it will examine the impacts on Florida of the large scale, planned retirement communities and the elderly who inhabit them, focusing on the social, economic, and political impacts. While the vast majority of Florida s elderly do not live in large scale, planned retirement communities, those communities marketed Florida to the elderly... 

One of the best examples of a large scale, planned retirement community, a geronclave, is Century Village in Pembroke Pines. The Century Village concept was originated in 1967 by H. Irwin Levy, a Palm Beach lawyer. The Cenvill... 

The support system provided within large scale, planned retirement communities lessens the need for governmentally-based and faith-based social service programs. In those cases where such programs are needed, this pattern of elderly settlement simplifies the delivery of social, cultural, educational, religious, health-related, and ethnic services to this population. 

Major new strip centers and shopping malls follow in the vicinity of the large-scale, planned retirement communities. Figure 102.2 shows a shopping center abutting Century Village Pembroke Pines on the northeast with a supermarket, dmg store. Home Depot and other small shops. In 2008, the Home Depot moved about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) to the east to be more central to their entire customer base now that Century Village is fully occupied. 

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