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Consider creating a library of resources to help boomer clients deal with issues of their 60s and 70s. These sources have been personally helpful or strongly recommended:

On Paper

Marti Barletta, Prime Time Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders (Kaplan Business, 2007)

Bernice Bratter and Helen Dennis, Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women (Scribner, 2008)

Gene Cohen, The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Harper Paperbacks, 2001)

Gene Cohen, The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain (Basic Books, 2007)

Marc Freedman, Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life (PublicAffairs, 2007)

Marc Freedman, Prime Time: How Baby Boomers will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America (PublicAffairs, 2002)

Brent Green, Marketing to Leading Edge Baby Boomers: Perceptions, Principles, Practices & Predictions (Paramount Market Publishing, 2006)

Olivia Mellan with Sherry Christie, Overcoming Overspending: A Winning Plan for Spenders and their Partners (Walker and Company, 1997)

James Prochaska, John Norcross, and Carlo DiClemente, Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward (Collins, 1995)

William A. Sadler, Ph.D., The Third Age: Six Principles for Growth and Renewal After Forty (Perseus Publishing, 2001)

William A. Sadler, Ph.D., and James H. Krefft, Ph.D., Changing Course: Navigating Life after 50 (The Center for Third Age Leadership Press, 2008); also see changingcoursebook.com

Nancy K. Schlossberg, Retire Smart, Retire Happy: Finding Your True Path in Life

(American Psychological Assn., 2003)

Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners, Don’t Retire, Rewire! (2nd edition), (Alpha, 2007)