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Mind
Mind: Orientation toward the future, planning
My Next Phase
http://www.mynextphase.com/public/mnp_works-how.php, $119 for individual use
For people of retirement age, a very nice analysis of your tendencies, how they are likely to affect your retirement years, and what you can do in a general way to make the most of who you are. For an extra fee, personal coaching can be included.
Sundstrom, Eric, et al, My Next Phase
Springboard Press, 2007, $24.99 (U.S.)
The authors discuss seven pscyhological attributes that affect how people deal with retirement. They provide quizzes to help the reader place him/herself along each of these dimensions, and discuss the relevance of different results.
Viard, Armelle, et al, "Mental Time Travel into the Past and the Future in Healthy Aged Adults: An fMRI Study", Brain and Cognition, February 2011 (Vol. 75, No. 1)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02782626
The authors relay the results of brain scans of older adults taken when they remembered past personal events and envisioned future plans.
Yogev, Sarah, For Better or for Worse...But Not for Lunch: Making Marriage Work in Retirement
Contemporary Booms, 2002, out of print
http://www.amazon.com/Better-Worse-But-Not-Lunch-Retirement/dp/0809297205/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275089041&sr=1-19#_
Something of a classic on the psychological issues married couples have to deal with in retirement.
Zurlo, Karen A., Personal Attributes and the Financial Well-Being of Older Adults: The Effects of Control Beliefs
Penn Population Aging Research Center, September 2009, Free
http://repository.upenn.edu/parc_working_papers/27/
Zurlo shows a correlation between a general sense of control and also a sense of control over one’s finances, on the one hand, with a sense of financial well-being, on the other hand.
Mind: Mental illnesses
Mind: Mental exercise
Mind: Aging process (mental, neurological)
Mind: Attitude / Emotion / Happiness
Mind: Decision-making style
Mind: Other / general / not specified