Resource Tools
Life Transition/Retirement
- Claiming Your Place at the Fire; Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose, Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro
- Don’t Retire, Rewire, Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners
- Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life, Marc Freedman
- Encore Career Handbook, Marci Albahor
- Life Reimagined, Richard J. Leider
- Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation, Tamara J. Erickson
- Something to Live For, Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life, Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro
- Supercharged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love, Mary Lloyd
- The Big Shift, Mark Freedman
- The Power of Purpose, Richard J. Leider
- What Color is Your Parachute? For Retirement, Richard N. Bolles and John E. Nelson
- Your Retirement Your Way, Alan Bernstein and John Trauth
Encore Careers, Fellowships
- Encore Fellowships
- Social Venture Partners (Portland, OR based Encore Fellowship)
- SAGE Legacy Fellowship (Senior Advocates for Generational Equity)
Talents, Strengths, Skills and Abilities
- Find Your Strongest Life, Marcus Buckingham
- Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham
- Strengths Finder 2.0, Tom Rath
- Lifework Transitions – Functional Transferable Skills Inventory
- The Passion Test-The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose,
- Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
- Personal Development for Smart People
Web-based articles, blogs, stories
- The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Reinventing Yourself, James Altucher
- The Short but Powerful Guide to Finding Your Passion, Leo Babauto; published in Daily Good
- Be a Comeback Kid: How to Reinvent Yourself at Any Age, Maddy Dychtwald
- Baby Boomers fueling wave of entrepreneurship, Matt Sedensky
- Next Chapter, New Life
- thirdAGE, Healthy living for women and their families
- Retired Brains
- Sixty and Me
- Your Life Calling – Jane Pauley & AARP
- Yo, Is this Ageist? – Ashton Applewhite
Work/Solo-entrepreneurship
- Better, Smarter, Richer: 7 Business Principles for Encore, Creative and Solo Entrepreneurs
- 7 Lessons about Finding the Work You Were Meant to Do, Kate Torgovnick-May TED Talk 4.29.16
- Re-entering the Workforce-Marketable Skills After 50, Debra Ann Matthews on careerpivot.com
- Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think about Work, Community, and the Good Life, Chris Farrell
Engagement: Community Involvement, Volunteering
- Hands on Greater Portland
- Idealist
- Metropolitan Family Services
- Oregon Volunteers! Oregon Commission for Voluntary Action & Service
- Senior Corps
- Volunteers of America – Oregon
- Volunteer Match
- Volunteering In America, Corporation for National and Community Service
Health and Wellness/Positive Aging
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande
- The Blue Zones-Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, Dan Buettner
- Younger Next Year, Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
- Younger Next Year for Women, Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
- The Longevity Game
Lifelong Learning
- Portland Community College
- Portland State University – Institute on Aging
Housing
- Aging in Community, Janice M. Blanchard, Editor
- The Senior Cohousing Handbook: A Community Approach to Independent Living, Charles Durrett
- With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as We Grow Older, Beth Baker