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Title: Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America by Marc Freedman, Alex Harris, Thomas Roma ISBN: 1-891620-17-7 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling message, good read
Comment: Marc Freedman's book communicates a forward thinking idea that is the next step in social development. Similar to how childhood was reinvented as a valid life stage in the nineteenth century and adolescence in the twentieth century, the new life stage of older retired adults represents the potential for dramatic civic renewal in our time. Those who believe Marc Freedman is advocating for further work after retirement are sorely mistaken and have missed the basic founding premise for his book. He is by no means attempting to guilt trip retirees out of taking a deserved break and rejuvenating themselves with plenty of golf and travel. Marc Freedman points out that the key is to achieve a better balance of work across generations. Our society manages to skew work into a massive time commitment, monopolizing our entire lives for the span of our careers and leaving time for nothing else. People naturally become either absolutely addicted or repelled by the idea of further service. He emphasizes that most people do need to get an R&R fix after working hard for decades but that after a certain amount of relaxation, many older people testify to needing deeper purpose and something to commit to in their retired lives. This empty place in their lives may be best filled through meaningful civic service, perhaps in areas that they had never considered before like mentoring school children or by continuing their lifelong career paths such as the doctors at the Samaritan House Clinic.
Freedman advocates for a revolution of society's attitudes towards older people in order to give them the option of remaining active and contributing to society or not. His heartening message of potential social renewal seeks to "expand opportunities and option, not obligations" and to show what a massive potential resource we have at hand. I found especially inspiring the idea of "the aging of America as an impending civic renaissance."
The book itself is extremely well written, and even if you do not agree with its message, it is worth reading for the first person narratives of older Americans. These are very inspiring and interesting because many of the perspectives are ones that I would never have encountered otherwise and that give me a greater hopefulness for my own ability to continue to affect change in old age.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring Read
Comment: Marc Freedman's book communicates a forward thinking idea that is the next step in social development. Similar to how childhood was reinvented as a valid life stage in the nineteenth century and adolescence in the twentieth century, the new life stage of older retired adults represents the potential for dramatic civic renewal in our time. Those who believe Marc Freedman is advocating for further work after retirement are sorely mistaken and have missed the basic founding premise for his book. He is by no means attempting to guilt trip retirees out of taking a deserved break and rejuvenating themselves with plenty of golf and travel. Marc Freedman points out that the key is to achieve a better balance of work across generations. Our society manages to skew work into a massive time commitment, monopolizing our entire lives for the span of our careers and leaving time for nothing else. People naturally become either absolutely addicted or repelled by the idea of further service. He emphasizes that most people do need to get an R&R fix after working hard for decades but that after a certain amount of relaxation, many older people testify to needing deeper purpose and something to commit to in their retired lives. This empty place in their lives may be best filled through meaningful civic service, perhaps in areas that they had never considered before like mentoring school children or by continuing their lifelong career paths such as the doctors at the Samaritan House Clinic.
Freedman advocates for a revolution of society's attitudes towards older people in order to give them the option of remaining active and contributing to society or not. His heartening message of potential social renewal seeks to "expand opportunities and option, not obligations" and to show what a massive potential resource we have at hand. I found especially inspiring the idea of "the aging of America as an impending civic renaissance."
The book itself is extremely well written, and even if you do not agree with its message, it is worth reading for the first person narratives of older Americans. These are very inspiring and interesting because many of the perspectives are ones that I would never have encountered otherwise and that give me a greater hopefulness for my own ability to continue to affect change in old age.
Rating: 1
Summary: Save your money
Comment: Don't buy this one, check it out of the library and read Chapter 6, because it is the ONLY chapter that talks about what the title promises: How Baby Boomers WILL Revolutionize and Transform America. Most of the book is a dull recitation of facts about how some people in our parents' generation found meaning by becoming foster grandparents (holding dying babies mentoring pregnant teens, or working at the local McDonalds.)
Sorry, but this is a depressing book that does not speak to me as a child-free adult who has spent her life working outside the home. There are a few interesting tidbits, such as how retirement communities such as Sun City were the genesis of racially segregated, gated communities where rich people pride themselves on avoiding taxes.
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Title: Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old by Ken Dychtwald, Ken, Phd Dychwaltd ISBN: 1585420433 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 21 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Creative Age : Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life by Ph.D. M.D. Cohen Gene D. ISBN: 0380800713 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders by Theodore Roszak ISBN: 1893163504 Publisher: Berkeley Hills Books Pub. Date: 31 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Age Wave : How The Most Important Trend Of Our Time Can Change Your Future by KEN PHD DYCHTWALD, JOE FLOWER ISBN: 055334806X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Third Age: Six Principles for Personal Growth and Rejuvenation after Forty by William A., Ph. D. Sadler, Ph.D., William A. Sadler ISBN: 073820434X Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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