How an entire generation cracked the game of life: working longer, but stressing less, with Demographer Bernard Salt

The Prime Timers are creating a whole new stage of life: The Lifestyle Years, a phase of life that brings a new balance to work and leisure time that previous generations simply couldn't enjoy.

It’s episode six of Prime Time, and this week I chat with Bernard Salt, world renowned demographer and social commentator about how our generation is doing pre-retirement and retirement differently. I have looked forward to recording this episode since the podcast began.

Bernard Salt probably knows more about the pre-retirement and 'lifestyle years' than anyone in the country. He's dedicated his career to studying this age group and how we are changing the way we live, work, buy, spend and sell. And it’s great to hear him talk about us so candidly - and how we’ll all probably be working longer, but doing less.

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Here’s some of the highlights:

1. We Prime Timers are doing it very differently - creating a whole different stage in life that has never existed before. And for the first time.

2. How happiness works in the Prime Time years, and how the happiest years are ahead of you in the decades to come according to the statistics.  Learn about the things that drive our happiness down in midlife, and what turns it around. 

3. How pre-retirees are reimagining work in the Lifestyle Years: working longer but lighter - our changing expectations of life, work and leisure time. 

4. How Prime Timers changing the way we connect with community

5. What the numbers tell us: Breaking down the census data - what is going right, and what is going wrong in our Prime Time years and what we can learn from it. 

6. Housing and downsizing is changing and the statistics tell a clear story of generational change 

7. The hunger of the Baby Boomer and Prime Timer for travel and grey nomading and how that is changing our generation’s expectations. 

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Together let’s make our prime time count.

Many thanks! Bec Wilson

Author, columnist, retirement educator, podcast host and keynote speaker

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