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Can Retiring Overseas Help You to Live a Longer, Healthier Life? These Experts Say Yes!

Are you approaching retirement age and mulling your options? Or someone already there, but realizing that life after 60 isn’t quite as you imagined it, and neither is retirement?

3 Critical Issues to Consider When Planning to Age in Place

Seniors and their families must come to grips with many realities when it comes to deciding about aging in place. One’s residence may not be the home sweet home that it used to be when we turn 60 and beyond…

A Million Dollar Look with Dollar Store Makeup? You Bet!

Check out our own “Aging Beautifully” affirmation cards. They will inspire you to live your life to the fullest and enable you to find joy and passion in the decades ahead.

Aging in Place: How to Prepare Your House for a Retrofit and Renovation

Many seniors prefer to spend their golden years in the comfort and familiarity of their own home, but the reality is that it’s not always safe to be home alone past a certain age. Accidents and illnesses may occur…

3 Ways Retiring Abroad Can Enrich Your Finances (and 2 Financial Traps to Look Out for!)

Face it. Nothing will have as much impact on your retirement as where you spend it.But what if retiring in place would require sticking to a bare-bones budget just to prevent you from outlasting your money?

7 Things Every Woman Over 60 Should Take with Her When Traveling

How daunting it is to pack for your holiday! It is confusing, tricky and frustrating, but I think I got it right – now, after 6 years.

Since 2013, I have been travelling the world. I first out with a 100-litre bag, then a 65-litre bag and now just with a carry on and a daypack. Read More

3 Ways Headscarves Can Help You Get More From Fashion After 50

As you get older, you might feel that you need to tone down your look. That shouldn’t be the case. On the contrary, you should embrace this new season of life with fun and fashionable looks and accessories…

6 Ways to Make Your Retirement Savings Last Longer

Women over 60 are facing a unique set of challenges as we enter the traditional “retirement” years. We are living longer than ever before, and we have more interests and life goals…

This is the Worst Mistake You Can Make When Retiring Abroad

There are many reasons that retiring abroad has become a hot trend. Some of us are looking for a way to live comfortably on Social Security and our limited savings. Others are choosing to seek adventure in far of places after a lifetime of being stuck in a cubicle. Still others are moving abroad in retirement to be closer to family members in other countries. Read More

5 Ways to Take Charge of Your Financial Future After 60

Women are more likely than men to underrate themselves when it comes to investing. Yet women are usually in charge of household budgets, are more willing to save for the long-term and are better bargain hunters…