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Adams, Gary A., and Rau, Barbara L., "Putting Off Tomorrow to Do What You Want Today: Planning for Retirement", American Psychologist, April 2011 (Vol. 66, No. 3)
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/66/3/180/
Adams and Rau conclude that although psychology has begun to play a role in understanding and addressing retirement preparation, there are considerable opportunities for psychologists to engage with this issue in their research and applied work.
Anthony, Mitch, Your Clients For Life: The Definitive Guide to Becoming a Successful Financial Life Planner
Dearborn Trade Publishing, 2002, $35.00
Anthony shows financial professionals how to develop a practice using a new and holistic approach to financial planning.
Financial Life Planning Online (Financial Life Planning Institute)
http://www.flponline.net/
FLP Online is an interactive web-based financial life planning program full of planning tools and resources to help financial services professionals understand and apply financial life planning into their practices.
National Survey of 800 Americans age 60-74
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Summer 2008
http://news.thrivent.com/newsroom/news/index.phtml?id=486
Notice of results, reporting that while most people who get financial advice for their retirement years have been very happy that they did, most older consumers say they do not want this kind of help.
Schultz, Kenneth S., and Wang, Mo, "Psychological Perspectives on the Changing Nature of Retirement", American Psychologist, April 2011 (Vol. 66, No. 3)
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/66/3/170/
Schultz and Wang emphasize how psychologists understand and research retirement, more than on how to help clients cope with it.
Structure
Bachrach, Anne M., Keys to Working Less, Making More Money, and Having a More Balanced Life
2007, Free
http://www.accountabilitycoach.com/bw/requestreport.php
Free report, available by request.
Other / general / not specified
AIFLP Organizing Team, "Toward a richness of life: A White Paper on the advantages of integrating financial and life planning and the need for a professional association to promote it", Integrative Adviser, June 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 1)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0101.pdf
White Paper used to establish the Association for Integrative Financial and Life Planning
Anderson Keith A., et al, "Hairstylists’ Relationships and Helping Behaviors With Older Adult Clients", Journal of Applied Gerontology, June 2010 (Vol. 29, No. 3)
http://jag.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/29/3/371
The authors studied the close relationships between older patients and their hairdressers, which the authors say point toward the potential inclusion of stylists in community gatekeeper programs that provide an important link between in-formal and formal helping networks.
Integrative Adviser
Association for Integrative Financial and Life Planning, Bi-Monthly, Free
http://www.aiflp.org/AIFLP_publications.htm
A journal to help define and develop what integrative, holistic planning is and how it can work, to promote its adoption, and to advocate for issues that will support clients receiving such advice
Dubofsky, David, and Sussman, Lyle, "Changing Role of the Financial Planner, The, Part 1: From Financial Analytics to Coaching and Life Planning", Journal of Financial Planning, August 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 8)
Dubofsky and Sussman present the eye-opening results of a survey of 1,374 financial planners about their involvement with coaching and life planning within their practices.
Duska, Ronald F., "On Helping Your Retirees", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, January 2011 (Vol. 65, No. 1)
Duska asks: Aside from encouraging your client to plan, is there more you should do? As a professional advisor, should concern for a client go past the concern for the financial interest? What sorts of questions should one ask? What sort of help should one give?
Gallagher, Andrea, "Life Planning Movement, The: The New Advantage for Financial Planners", Integrative Adviser, September 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 3)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0303.pdf, Free
Gallagher highlights the importance of integrative life planning, especially for people in the second half of life, and discusses the ways in which the Life Planning Network supports the movement of advisors, coaches, and counselors in this direction.
Garmaise, Ena, "Patterns of Financial Well-Being and Their Implications for Financial Advice", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, May 2010
Garmaise employs a new measure of financial well-being — the subjective assessment of financial security and stability — and provides specific recommendations for how patterns in financial well-being can be deployed to frame financial advice
Jetton, Elizabeth, "Putting the Pieces Together for the Third Age", Aging Well, Summer 2008
Jetton makes the case for holistic planning, and collaboration between financial planners and other advising professionals.
Jetton, Elizabeth, Moving from Financial Planning to Financial Life Planning
TIAA-CREF Institute, August 2009, Free
http://www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/pdf/research/trends_issues/ti_financialplanning0809a.pdf
Jetton describes the scope, importance, methods, and success measurement of holistic planning, urging traditional financial planners to step up to this kind of approach.
Laura, Robert, "Race To Help People Create a Meaningful Retirement, The", Integrative Adviser, September 2011 (Vol. 4, No. 3)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0403.pdf, Free
Laura discusses two business models that advisers are using to raise awareness about non-financial retirement issues and what they are doing to generate new business.
MacBean, E. Craig, "Integrative Advising", Integrative Adviser, June 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 1)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0101.pdf
Makes the case for an approach to advising clients that spans all seven domains of life and that takes into account future stages of life, up to and including death.
MacBean, E. Craig, "Are Integrative Advising - and Seeking Integrative Advice - Ethical Imperatives?", Integrative Adviser, October 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 2)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0103.pdf
Argues that as a matter of ethical principle or ethical consequence advisors - financial and otherwise - are obliged, even compelled, to take a broader and more integrative approach to advising their clients than their narrow specialty affords
Maton, Cicily Carson, et al, "Collaborating with a Financial Therapist: The Why, Who, What, and How", Journal of Financial Planning, December 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 12)
The authors argue strongly for collaboration between financial advisors and financial therapists, and provide very practical advice on how to do this in a beneficial, productive fashion.
Nelson, John E., "Planning for Well-Being", Integrative Adviser, June 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0302.pdf, Free
Describes why 'well-being' is an ideal organizing concept for holistic planning, and describes a specific approach to implementing that concept.
Sussman, Lyle, and Dubofsky, David, "Changing Role of the Financial Planner, The, Part 2: Prescriptions for Coaching and Life Planning", Journal of Financial Planning, September 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 9)
Sussman and Dubofsky address the personal, professional, and ethical implications of holistic approaches to planning.
Yanikoski, Charles S., "Conceptual Scheme for Integrative Financial and Life Planning, A", Integrative Adviser, December 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 4)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0104.pdf, Free
Yanikoski presents an overview of a holistic planning concept for older clients, based on information about their metaphysical stance, their personalities, and the facts and circumstances of their lives.
Yanikoski, Charles S., New Wild West, The: Integrating Financial and Life Planning in the Second Half of Life
Still River Retirement Planning Software, Inc., August 2009, Free
http://www.stillriverretire.com/Downloads/IntegrativePlanning_paper.pdf
Yanikoski argues that integrative planning is inevitably in our future, and outlines how it might work.