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Websites
Seniors
www.50plus.com – Canadian Association for the Fifty-plus (Formerly known as the Canadian Association of Retired People).
www.seniornet.org
A pilot site developed by IBM to make the World Wide Web accessible to everyone, including people who have visual limitations or motor impairments that make it difficult to type or use a mouse. The non profit Senior Net provides adults 50 + access to and education about computer technology and the internet.
www.senioryears.com
Canadian Senior Years – Offers a comprehensive listing of provincial retirement housing options, plus links to seniors’ activity, health and resource centers throughout Canada. It includes great travel links such as Seniors Home Exchange and Senior Tours Canada. Visitors to this website can join seniors’ discussion forums, establish email pals or look for romantic connections under the seniors’ singles section.
Health & Nutrition
www.canadian-health-network.ca
A national, non-profit, bilingual web-based health information service.
Providers include Health Canada and national and provincial/territorial non profit organizations, as well as universities, hospitals, libraries and community organizations. Includes information for all groups – children, youth, seniors, women, men, people with disabilities, ethnic groups and aboriginal peoples. Topics on active living, healthy eating and health issues.
www.caregiver.on.ca This commercial site is an excellent site for anyone needing practical and supportive advice in caring for an elderly relative.
www.diet-i.com
Advice on diet, weight loss programs, nutrition and fitness.
runnersworld.com
Here’s where you find nutrition, injury prevention, strengthening and stretching
exercises
Finance
www.moneysense.ca
This comprehensive Canadian site offers information on financial news, investing, planning, small business, portfolio and much more.
Education
www.cvu-uvc.ca
Canadian Virtual University is a partnership of universities across Canada, co-delivering university-level programs that can be completed anywhere in the country.
Travel
www.gotraveldirect.com
www.cheapticketscanada.ca
www.exitravel.com
www.lastminuteclub.com
www.maritimetravel.ca
www.fabuloussavings.com
www.expedia.ca
www.selloffvacations.com
www.sunholidays.ca
www.google.com
One of the best search engines for travel.
Gardening
www.backyardgardener.com
One stop information site to help people understand their gardening needs.
www.icangarden.com
Become an e-mail pal with a fellow gardener or sign up for a garden tour.
Hobbies
www.rootsweb.com
The oldest and largest free genealogy site.
www.retirementwithapurpose.com/hobbies - a good place to start when considering hobbies – the site also has useful information in other categories as well
General
www.canada.gc.ca
This site offers a wealth of information about all federal government departments and agencies with links to their respective Web sites. The site provides a gateway to information and services about topics such as:
- how to start a business
- information for seniors
- Canada Pension and Old Age Security
- information on filing a tax return
- how to replace lost or stolen identification cards
- get current weather conditions and local forecast information
- how to obtain a passport
- get information about what you can and cannot bring home after
- travelling outside Canada
- find a postal code
- explore Canada on the Internet
Reference Books
General
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor
by Ernie J. Zelinski (Author)
Reviewer: Nigel Brown from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada having been a financial advisor for more than 30 years, it is a refreshing relief to find a book that does not focus on the monetary issues of retirement. As principal of a company that helps people "design the best years of their life" this book is an excellent primer that is also entertaining. Contrary to the sub-title there is a slowly increasing number of advisors who have an equal focus on retirement lifestyle planning as they do on pure financial planning. The style of read is "appealing." This book will encourage the baby boom generation to explore what is possible for them in retirement, to be more and to contribute more to their communities.
The Joy of Not Working: 21st Century Edition-A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked Ernie Zelinski (Author)
Book Info
Guide to being more productive at work by working less. Shows how to discover and pursue your life's passions; gain the courage to leave your corporate job if it is draining the life out of you; and pursue interesting leisure activities that make a difference in your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Soft cover. DLC: Retirement
Purpose and Power in Retirement: New Opportunities for Meaning and Significance (Templeton Foundation Press)
Perfect: Retirement Strategies for Productive People. Bond, D. and Bond, D. (2002) Toronto:Douglas & McIntyre. [A recent book with a Canadian Perspective.]
The Joy of Stress. Hansen, J. [A good basic overview of stress and how it affects us.]
Finance
Start Late, Finish Rich, Canadian Edition, 2005 David Bach. “The wonderfully simple, commonsense methods of financial management described in this new addition of David Bach’s #1 international bestseller Start Late, Finish Rich can give every Canadian a running jump on building wealth and becoming financially off.” – Wendy Hannam, Executive Vice President, Domestic Branch Banking, Scotiabank
The Pension Puzzle, 2002 Bruce Cohen & Brian Fitzgerald. “If you’ve been looking for a basic book on pensions, this is it. The authors help empower the average Canadian with solid, plain English information, and with tips and worksheets, that cover off a variety of retirement programs and scenarios.”-Deborah Loenow, Senior Vice President Corporate Pensions, Scotiabank.
The Canadian Bankers Association
On behalf of the banking industry, the Canadian Bankers Association has embarked on a program called Building an Understanding. As part of the program, they offer free publications, ranging from money management and interest rates to mortgages, starting a small business and saving. To obtain copies, call toll-free 1-800-263-2031, visit their web site at www.cba.ca or write to Building a Better Understanding c/o Canadian Bankers Association, Box 348, Commerce Court West, 199 Bay St., 30th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5L 1G2
Publications that would be of interest to people planning for retirement would be publications such as “Planning for Retirement” and “Your Guide to Financial Services” an overview of Canadian financial products and services.
One Up on Wall Street, 1989 Peter Lynch. Peter Lynch knows how to make money. This book lets you in on his secrets. Lynch shows the average investor, the key to making money in the stock market is sticking to what you know. Lynch shows you how to distinguish the long shots from the “no shots”, how to research a company once you have spotted it. He explains the jargon and the numbers, the cycles and the turnarounds, and much more.
Boom Bust & Echo, 1998 David K. Foot and Daniel Stoffman. Profiting from the demographic shift in the new millennium. Boom Bust & Echo was the national phenomenon that demonstrated the power of demographics to help us understand the past and forecast the future. Now, Boom Bust & Echo 2000 reveals Canada’s demographic profile at the turn of the century when a new population shift will have profound implications for our economic and social life.
The New Retirement, 1999 Dian Cohen. Financial strategies for life after work. Also the author of No Small Change
Enough, 1998 Betty Jane Wiley. Lifestyle and financial planning for simpler living.
Estate Planning
The Only Retirement Planning Guide You’ll Ever Need.1998. Robert Kerr. Great chapter on estate planning with check lists and sample work sheets.
You Can’t Take It With You, 2000 Sandra E. Foster. The common sense guide to estate planning for a Canadian. A super guide to estate planning that covers all the legal issues you need to consider. There are also practical forms and check lists in Chapter 20 to help you organize your thinking around estate planning issues.
Make the Best of What You’ve Got, 1999 Sandra E. Foster. The Canadian guide to managing retirement income. “It addresses more estate planning issues than any other book I have seen and it’s balanced, sensible advice … I’m adding it to my recommended list of personal finance books.” - Ron Chalmers, Money Matters, The Edmonton Journal.
Travel
The Canadian Snowbird Guide, 1999 Douglas Gray. Everything you need to know about living part-time in the United States and Mexico.
Relationships
Growing Older Together, 1992 Barbara Silverstone and Helen Kandel Hyman. A couple’s guide to understanding and coping with the challenges of later life. Also author’s of You and Your Aging Parent.
133 Ways to Avoid Going Cuckoo When the Kids Fly the Nest: A Parent’s Guide for Surviving Empty Nest Syndrome, 2001 Lauren Schaffer and Sandy Wasserman.
The Myth of Maturity: What Teenagers Need From Parents to Become Adults, 2001 Terri Apter.
The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life Laura Kastner, PhD and Jennifer Wyatt, PhD
All Grown Up: Living Happily Ever After with Your Adult Children, 2001 Roberta Maisel. How to let go, deal with crisis in your adult children’s lives, set boundaries, build trust and find a way to communicate without judgment.
Coping with Your Grown Children, 1989 Edwin Klingelhofel. A first class guide full of advice about how to relate to adult children.
The Family Squeeze: Surviving the Sandwich Generation, 1996 Kingsmill & Schlesinger. Superb advice on how to handle the challenging issues facing the person.
Keys To Living With A Retired Husband, by Gloria Goodman
As the title would indicate, this easy to read book is written for the wives of retired husbands. However, the newly retired, or about to be retired husband could well read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest its contents. How better way for him to try and appreciate what his spouse is having to come to grips with - this underfoot creature only previously seen around considerably less than full time.
The emphasis in these keys is on practical advise well grounded in a common sense base. The author has not limited her reading audience to those couples who are quite likely to be of similar age, long married and now retired - the parents of the so called boomers. Rather, the examples she has chosen to write for include those couples typical of the 90's society. Couples with fair age differences; couples previously married to other partners; couples who had put careers first and married later in life, and so on.
Remarried with Children, 2004, Bantam Books, Barbara Lebey – Ten Secrets for successfully blending and extending your family. Drawing on extensive interviews and new research, Barbara Labey shows how to navigate the stresses, sticking points, pitfalls, and perils most couples don’t even anticipate.
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