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Health and wellbeing in retirement

Retirement means not only grappling with changes to your finances, but also thinking about the impact your retirement will have on your family life and your mental and physical wellbeing. This page provides information on how to cope with these changes and ensure you have a healthy and fulfilling retirement.

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eBooks

The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides full text access to a selection of key business and reference eBooks from leading publishers. eBooks are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users. If you are unable to access an eBook, please see our Help and support advice or contact library@icaew.com.
Exclusive Good retirement guide 2024: everything you need to know about health, property, investment, leisure, work, pensions and tax
  • eBook
  • 2024
  • Jonquil Lowe
  • Kogan Page
Contains information, suggestions and advice on all aspects of retirement and beyond.
Terms of use

You are permitted to access, download, copy, or print out content from eBooks for your own research or study only, subject to the terms of use set by our suppliers and any restrictions imposed by individual publishers. Please see individual supplier pages for full terms of use.

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Online articles

The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides access to leading business, finance and management journals. These journals are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users subject to suppliers' terms of use.
Exclusive The real retirement struggle: Defining yourself as more than the sum of a long career
  • Article
  • 03 Oct 2016
  • Dan Kadlec
Article on the importance of preparing emotionally, as well as financially, for retirement. Discusses ways of forging an identity that will shape wellbeing once your existing career has ended.
Exclusive The home and its role in a retirement plan: making decisions about where to live and how to pay for it
  • Article
  • 01 Jan 2014
  • Sandra Timmermann
Explores the question of where to live in retirement from a psychological, practical and financial perspective.
Exclusive Counting snowflakes: the emotional side of retirement
  • Article
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • Eileen Gallo
Looks at some of the psychological and emotional issues involved in making the decision to retire and the process of reorganising your life once you have retired.

Articles and books in the ICAEW Library collection

The collection of the ICAEW Library & Information Service includes a collection of articles and books on retirement. Use the links below to see what we have available to request in our Library catalogue (Libcat).
Pension magic: how to make the taxman pay for your retirement, 2023/24
  • Library book
  • 2023
  • N.Braun
  • Taxcafe UK
This book 'shows you how to build a big retirement pot by claiming thousands of pounds of extra tax relief on your pension contributions'. Includes sections on pension contribution rules, pension freedom rules, pensions v ISAs, higher-rate taxpayers, auto-enrolment, salary sacrifice pensions, company directors, family pension planning and pension planning for the self-employed and property investors.
Retirement planning expert 2023
  • Library book
  • 2023
  • A.E.Smith
  • Quartertoten
Straightforward, practical and easy to understand information - hundreds of hints and tips to help adapt, thrive and achieve a better lifestyle in retirement.

Find more articles and books

To find out how you can borrow books from the Library please see our guide to borrowing books.

You can obtain copies of articles or extracts of books and reports through our document supply service.

Useful links

Caba mental health help
  • Website
  • Chartered Accountants Benevolent Association
CABA help and guides on wellbeing, mental health stress and resilience
Health & wellbeing
  • Website
  • Age UK
Get information on age-related health conditions, tips and advice on staying fit and healthy, and information on dealing with health services and leaving hospital.
How to look after your mental health in later life
  • Website
  • Mental Health Foundation
Booklet from the Mental Health Foundation offering practical advice on protecting mental health for people who are approaching retirement or who have recently retired from work.
caba: approaching and enjoying retirement
  • Website
  • caba
Tips and advice from the Chartered Accountants' Benevolent Association on preparing for and managing your retirement.
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