Planning Your Time in Retirement: How to Cultivate a Leisure Lifestyle to Suit Your Needs and Interests - Hardcover

by Robert A. Stebbins (Author)

As the greying of our population continues, retirees are enjoying more and more healthy years of retirement, and those years can be productive, enjoyable, and rewarding. This work speaks to those retirees who wish to enjoy their golden years doing things they enjoy.

Author Biography

Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, received his PhD in sociology in 1964 from the University of Minnesota. He is now Faculty Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada. Stebbins is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Leisure Sciences, and World Leisure Academy. He is also an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa, Macalester College Chapter. The serious leisure perspective, which he pioneered, now has its own website at www.seriousleisure.net. He is the author of several books including The Idea of Leisure: First Principles and Personal decisions in the public square: Beyond problem into a positive sociology, and others.