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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on retirement and health. Interesting tidbits of information, I'm sure, will come your way from our illustrious crew. So today, when we talk about retirement, it's going to be a little bit of a perspective thing because, you know, I'm retired.
Chapter 2: How do personal experiences shape perspectives on retirement?
Barry's retired. Clarence is retired. Retired for all intent and purposes, right? So it'll be interesting perspectives on what we've learned. So stay tuned on all that. We have a great crew. I always like to identify them and let everybody know that without them, these shows would not be as successful and as interesting.
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Chapter 3: What are the challenges faced by retirees in adjusting to a new lifestyle?
They do our production. They do our recording and help keep Barry and Clarence and I in line. So thank you. Thank you to all of you. They're really, really great, great colleagues and friends and friends as well. Got Clarence as my co-host on the show. We've been doing this since day one. Thank you, Clarence, for being with us all the time.
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Chapter 4: How does retirement impact mental and physical health?
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And boy, I don't know about you, Barry and Clarence, but I've been thinking about this and kind of the adjustment that retirement offers. takes so what i thought i would do is at least start out with this question um how did you know that it was time for you to retire so barry what take it take away okay i am going to go off on
They're not going to be tangents. They're going to be very relevant. Because what you're talking about is only one option for retirement. That when you decide to retire, and that actually makes a difference in terms of people who were forced into retirement when they didn't want to. And those things have impacts on health. I mean, one of the, so, but to answer your question.
Yeah, so how did you, what was the key for you? Yeah, well, you know, when you start to, well, it's a couple of things, but, you know, you do get to a certain age and you start to, you know, you start to think about things differently and you start making, for me, it was making a shift. Are there other things that,
Chapter 5: What role does legacy play in the retirement experience?
that I'd want to do. I will say that for physicians, retirement tends to be much more difficult to retire because so much of their identity is tied up in being a physician, caring for patients, things like that. And so I've known a number of colleagues because they You're so busy doing your doc thing that oftentimes you have never had time to develop other interests.
And so and that's actually one of the things that provide a safety net that like for me, I mean, because I was a very devoted hospice physician and, you know, family doc and things like that. Fortunately for me, I developed other interests. And then for me, it was having someone that you could sort of pass the torch to or pass the baton to the younger generation.
And, uh, but then to be honest, also, uh, one of the hospice programs that I was a medical director for, um, I'm not going to mention specific names here, but the organization that the hospice was in, uh, decided that hospice didn't quite fit their mission. And so they effectively sold their hospice off to somebody else. So there was a part of my job where.
I was forced into retirement because there was there was no reason to have Barry as a medical as a hospice medical director. Yeah. So so that part, you know, like, you know, just disappeared. And then the other one I just decided to I had a good colleague that I could pass the baton on. And there were other things that lots of things interest me.
Chapter 6: How can retirees maintain social connections and avoid loneliness?
So my transition was good. I still keep my. my toe in as it were and I still even working with you know with Clarence and Stan and the rest of the crew with uh really with everybody um I still feel like I'm sort of not retired totally because you all especially Deandra and Aaron and Maddie and
Matthew and Sheridan really keep me on my toes to, you know, I want to play, you know, be playing an A game here with health chatter. And so, so they do great research and then I pick up on things and then I could do a little bit more to keep me on my toes. And that keeps, you know, keeps them sharp. So, but that decision was more,
It wasn't because, a big thing, it wasn't because of health reasons that I needed to retire. It's that I chose to do that with the idea that I can now devote myself to doing things that I really want to do. Oftentimes when we work, we do things that we have to do. And so life satisfaction changes.
So, Clarence, what's your perspective, personal perspective on it?
Well, so it's interesting that, Barry, you and I have very similar retirement events in our lives. And that, you know, it depends on how you define retirement. You know, mine was also somewhat similar.
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Chapter 7: What financial considerations should retirees keep in mind?
not necessarily welcomed, you know, when people decide they want to go into a different direction. And so you do that, but I retired from that particular position, but not retired from the work. And so, you know, how people define it is, well, you know, you work so many years. Now you've reached a certain age, like 62, 65, 67. Now you're retired. So I go along with the game.
I just say, yeah, I'm retired, but I'm still doing what I was always doing. I think that's what that's what's interesting about this whole issue around retirement. When I was growing up, I think people worked.
You know, people worked to retire, but unfortunately, many times they would work all their lives and then they would they would be unalive a couple of years later because they had they didn't have those those other passions or those other activities and things like that. And so so retirement for me and health.
is that sometimes when I take a look at this life, I am now conscious of, in this stage of my life, to be more healthier. I think this morning I took some hydrogen water. Somebody told me hydrogen water was good for me. I said, okay, let me go try some hydrogen water.
Chapter 8: How can retirees find happiness and purpose after leaving the workforce?
Retirement does not mean stagnation. A lot of times people think of stagnation, you know, we're going to go on the beach, we're going to just sit for a couple of years, we're going to take up the sun. That to me is, well, you can do that, but that to me is not a very, very fruitful life, you know, but that's my personal opinion. So I'm going to leave it right there.
So, you know, it's, you know, I'm going to pick up on a couple of thoughts that you guys brought out. For me, it's like I saw, when I was at the state health department, I saw young talent. And I always thought that it's time for them to carry the torch, like you had said, Barry. And then it became, how is it to...
So it became for me when I retired, I went through a whole process with the crew at this Department of Health on knowledge transfer. How is it that I can can at least at a minimum give you information? you know, what I know and information so that you can proceed from that point.
So another thing that I think is important for the listening audience to understand is retirement doesn't mean you're cutting the cord. You're taking maybe a different path or assuming different activities. And all of that can be healthy. It really, really can. Also, it's OK. You know, it's like, you know, I don't know if you guys have run into this, but people say, well, OK, you're retired.
So now what are you doing? You know, that's a typical question that you get. And you know what? It's OK to do nothing. It is OK. OK, until, you know, for some people, it takes them a while to kind of figure out, you know, a difference in lifestyle and adjustment. And for some people, it takes a while.
Let me interject real quick. Yeah, yeah. You said something that I thought I think is very interesting. You talked about you recognize that you had younger people coming along behind you. Right, right. And you wanted to create a pathway for them. I think for those people that might be listening to this program who are
thinking about retirement or who would just be interested in the topic, I think it's important for them to talk about legacy. I mean, it's one thing to work all your life and, you know, 30 years in the company, but what kind of legacy do you leave? You know what I mean? I think when you realize that you have a legacy,
or you have some kind of investment and someone else coming along, you really don't retire. You just change it to mentoring. You know what I mean?
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it.
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