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Follow Birchwood’s co-founder Kay Kramer as she journals her experience transitioning into retirement.

If you’re an adult child with senior parents, you’ve probably experienced a reversal of past roles. Early in your life, your parent may have taught...

Life brings many changes and challenges – sometimes when we least expect it. Divorce can be an extremely emotional process, whether the decision...

After all the planning, number-crunching, endless discussions, dreaming, and plotting, how often is retirement what people expect it to be? As...

Leadership changes always beget uncertainty. When that transitioning leader is the top-ranking official of our federal government, it can signal...

If you’re like most Americans, you may think that the day you retire is the day you turn on every retirement account you have contributed to...

Retirement is already confusing enough without all the assumptions people make about it. The reality of retired life is that it’s different for...

Transitioning into retirement is a major life event. While some romanticize retirement and even see it as an achievement in personal status, it can...

Some things about retirement can't be measured with numbers. The first year of retirement can seem like one of the most stressful of your life, and...

Today the experiences of those who are currently exploring retirement differ in important ways from previous generations. For example, both partners...