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Consumers/clients: Family: Marriage
Couples's Retirement Puzzle
http://dorianmintzer.typepad.com/couples_retirement_puzzle/, Free
Informational and blog website dealing the issues couples face in retirement.
Health Effect of Marriage and Other Social Relationships (Population Reference Bureau), June 1, 2000
http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2009/marriage.aspx, Free
Kent's 20-minute webcast interview with Linda Waite on the feects that marriage and social relationships have on health.
Marriage Planning for Adults with Disabilities (Parenting an Adult with Complex Special Needs), October 2009
http://parentingacomplexadult.blogspot.com/2009/10/marriage-planning-for-adults-with.html, Free
This site addresses the special problems of relationships for adults with disabilities and how the parents of such adults might deal with them.
Relationship Stress for Retired Couples (RetirementExpert)
http://www.retirementexpert.co.uk/relationship-stress-for-retired-couples.html, Free
Deals briefly with some of the issues retired couples face and steps they should take to help assure that they adjust together to retirement.
Retirement Plann x 2, TIAA-CREF, 2008
http://www.tiaa-cref.org/ucm/groups/content/@ap_ucm_p_tcp/documents/document/tiaa01009256.pdf, Free
Focuses more on financial strategies than lifestyle issues, but covers both.
Top 10 List of SMS Etiquette (Wireless Developer Netword)
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/newswire-less/thefeature04.html, Free
Pointers on online or cellphone messaging.
You and Your Spouse: A Retirement Planning Checklist (Fidelity Investments)
http://personal.fidelity.com/myfidelity/InsideFidelity/NewsCenter/mediadocs/couples_retirement_checklist.pdf, Free
Focuses more on financial strategies than lifestyle issues, but covers both.
Consumers/clients: Family: Divorce, separation
Coping with a Breakup or Divorce (HelpGuide.com)
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/coping_divorce_relationship_breakup.htm, Free
Offers the essential advice, and provides some links to specific topics.
Dealing with Ex-Spouses (WomensDivorce.com)
http://www.womansdivorce.com/dealing-with-ex-spouses.html, Free
A helpful overview, with links to specifc issues with their exes that divorced women commonly deal with.
Financial Divorce Blog
http://financialdivorceblog.com/, Free
Offers a wealth of information on financial issues related to divorce, with links to outside resources.
Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts
https://www.institutedfa.com/cdfaSearch.php, Free
This organization's search page can find you a financial adviser in your area who specializes in divorce situations.
Rules of Separation (Helium.com)
http://www.helium.com/knowledge/184616-the-rules-of-separation, Free
Links to over a dozen articles on the subject of legal and/or physical separations in marriages.
Splitsville: The Odds on Marital Separation (The Book of Odds, Inc.)
http://www.bookofodds.com/Relationships-Society/Marriage-Divorce/Articles/A0491-Splitsville-The-Odds-on-Marital-Separation, Free
Provides some facts you should know about marital separation, if you are facing that situation.
When Divorce Happens Over 40 (Divorce Resource Center of Rhode Island)
http://drcri.net/articles/when-divorce-happens-over-40.html, Free
A good resource, dealing mostly with emotional and family issues.
Consumers/clients: Family: Widowhood, unmarried
Death of a Spouse: Steps You Should Take (CPA Site Solutions)
http://fso.cpasitesolutions.com/premium/LE/19_le_lo/fg/fg-Death_Spouse.html, Free
Solid, succinct financial advice for dealing with the death of a spouse.
For New Widows and Widowers (RetirementWorks, Inc.)
http://www.retirementworks2.com/pdfs/For_%20New_Widows_and_Widowers-ALL.pdf, Free
A helpful guide for what to do and what not to do when your spouse dies.
Mourning the Death of a Spouse (National Institute on Aging), January 2010
http://www.nia.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/1FD87C5D-5D14-4684-92D9-3105989934C0/13993/12panels_MOURNING_pms2728_10FEB1b_cm.pdf, Free
A pamphlet from the National Institute on Aging that contains a lot of good advice.
WidowNet
http://www.widownet.org/, Free
A site by and for widows and widowers – kind of personal and quirky, but it just might speak to you in a way that you won’t find elsewhere.
Consumers/clients: Family: Parent-child or -grandchild
Consumers/clients: Family: Siblings
Adult Sibling Grief (Adult Sibling Grief Community)
http://www.adultsiblinggrief.com/, Free
A social networking site for adults grieving the death of siblings.
Adults Grieving the Death of a Sibling (The Compassionate Friends)
http://www.compassionatefriends.org/brochures/adults_grieving_the_death_of_a_sibling.aspx, Free
An excellent overview of the emotional issues to be dealt with when an adult sibling dies.
Death of a Sibling or Twin (GriefHealing.com)
http://www.griefhealing.com/death-of-a-sibling-or-twin.htm, Free
Links you to a lot of other good resources, including web pages that deal with other special circumstances, such as loss of a twin, suicide of a sibling, military death, and other topics.
How to Get Along with Adult Siblings (eHow)
http://www.ehow.com/how_2107408_get-along-adult-siblings.html, Free
Five useful suggestions.
How to Handle Adult Sibling Conflict (LiveStrong.com)
http://www.livestrong.com/article/78924-handle-adult-sibling-conflict/, Free
A sensible 5-step approach.
Ways for Siblings to Divide an Inheritance (Helium.com)
http://www.helium.com/knowledge/136349-ways-for-siblings-to-divide-an-inheritance, Free
Suggestions by readers on how to solve an often sticky problem.
Consumers/clients: Mid-career, wealth-building
Consumers/clients: Late career, retirement
Consumers/clients: Aging
Consumers/clients: Gender groups
Empty Nest Moms
http://www.emptynestmoms.com/index.html, Free
A website for, you guessed it, empty nest moms. The site is reasonably informative, if you dig around enough, and it can lead to other good resources. It also offers forums and chat, and they will help you set up a local chapter, if you want to.
Granny Basketball (LoveToKnow.com)
http://seniors.lovetoknow.com/Senior_Exercise_Activities:_Granny_Basketball, Free
Information about Granny basketball, a playful, fun-filled senior exercise activity that encourages women to stay fit in a non-traditional, social environment.
Women's Retirement Risks (Urban Institute), April 2011
http://www.urban.org/publications/500224.html, Free
In this video presentation, Johnson explains the financial and health challenges women commonly face with age, what retirement looks like for women in the 21st century, and policy recommendations to help women in their golden years.
Strong Women: Your Virtual Trainer
http://strongwomen.com/
A website by Dr. Miriam Nelson promoting physical training for women. Offers information, programs, links, books, recipes, and other useful items.
Women Employed
http://www.womenemployed.org/index.php?id=75, Free
Provides a lot of information and an active network for women with job-related problems, with special emphasis on sexual harassment and discrimination.
Consumers/clients: Geographic groups
SunLife Unretirement Index (Sun Life)
http://www.sunlife-usa.com/unretirementindex/index.cfm, Free
Offers results of separate retirement surveys for the U.S. and Canada.
Consumers/clients: Other / general / not specified