The Psychology of Retirement

So I'm going to jump into our topic right away.

And I want to focus really on the identity with employment.

As you know, the minute you walk up to somebody, one of the first questions you might ask is, hi, what's your name and what do you do for a living? And we have so much identity with our jobs.

And that identity kind of goes away at retirement.

And, you know, before I even jump into this, I want to share, we invited you here today because Rogers is starting a whole program for the 55 and up.

So what a great opportunity to be able to talk with you because that's a certain segment of the population that I don't want to say we often overlook.

But when you think of mental health and just challenges, We often think of adolescents or young adult or adult.

We never focus on that 55 and plus.

So before we even get into my question, take a moment and share what's going on at Rogers and what have you seen where you felt we need to help this segment of the population?

Sure.

Yeah, I appreciate you saying that they're overlooked because I think that's true.

That population is often overlooked by society and, you know, just programs in general.

There's a real lack of programs for that age population.

So we developed our LifeWell program.

It is a 55 plus inpatient.

And then we're also in the works to get our partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient program up and running, too.

So inpatient is when people are having severe mental health crises and they might have thoughts of hurting themselves.

Other people just need a lot more assistance throughout the day.

And then partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient are day programs.

So they go home at night and go to programs during the day.

So we're probably scaring our listeners right now, thinking retirement.

But I'll tell you, when I did some prep work for today's segment, when you think of retirement, it can be just as stressful as a divorce or a death.

And so that's why we want to talk about it today.

In fact, again, if you're my client or you've worked with any financial advisor, the minute we start talking about preparing for retirement, it's always financially.

Mm-hmm.