Abstract

This paper offers the view that individuals need to accept a large measure of responsibility for their journey toward and into old age. The challenge is for people approaching retirement to have the courage and foresight to re-invent life in its fullest sense. Many Australians are deceptively unprepared for the likely prospect of spending twenty-five to thirty years in occupational retirement. It is suggested that society needs to encourage individuals during middle-life and beyond to become portfolio people in the sense that they are prepared to add new dimensions and challenges to their lives. A number of perspectives for positive adaptation to later life are provided in conjunction with a philosophical framework for activating a meaningful and productive leisure lifestyle. A great deal of talent is lost in the world from want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort; who if they could have been induced to begin, would have in all probability gone great lengths in the career of same. The fact is that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. (Burnside 1976, p.3.)

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