Adaptation to Retirement

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Abstract
Retirement is a somewhat troublesome social and personal problem for many individuals. Yet, typical interpretations of retirement are especially marked by inadequate attention to: 1) variations in response to retirement; 2) the biographies of elderly individuals which help to explain the observed variations; and 3) variations in the social circumstances surrounding retirement for given individuals. Personal achievements at work, personal resources developed in the process of education, and the net worth of social relations become a pool of resources for satisfactory adaptation in retirement. Physicians are likely to see and counsel those individuals who have not had a satisfactory work experience for whom a great deal of social engineering will be required to achieve a satisfactory experience in retirement. Environmental resources which make adequate adaptation in retirement likely are discussed.

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