abstract: This book is designed to contribute to the foundation of basic information that leaders
and researchers will need when they begin to devote much more time and resources to the
institutional adjustments that the up-coming wave of retirements among baby boomers will
require. Its contents deal with aspects of retirement that have been outside the main
focus in the research literature, but which will likely receive much greater attention
in the future. These aspects include social issues arising from the emergence of a large
number of people who form a substantial proportion of the adult population and whose
length of time in retirement will be as long as that of a generation, roughly 25 years;
women's retirement; family dynamics and retirement; and retirement processes
among people with no career job as conventionally defined. A large part of the book is
devoted to scientific papers that are based upon Statistics Canada's data and
which require substantial innovations of useful concepts and data series that serve to
illustrate the potentials of our data.
