Retirement: What will you do? A narrative inquiry of occupation-based planning for retirement: Implications for practice

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-16

  Hewitt, Alana ^a   Howie, Linsey ^a   Feldman, Susan ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active ageing; Meaningful occupation; Occupational identity; Retirement planning

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETIREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; RETIREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77949574421     PISSN: 00450766     EISSN: 14401630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1630.2009.00820.x     Document Type: Article

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