Late-Life Learning
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This article was kindly written for the SDC by member Alan G.
Retirement is a period in our lives many of us really look forward to, but after the initial euphoria, we tend to actually miss our time at work.
For me, it had been over 50 years of being a responsible ‘breadwinner’ – albeit with the invaluable help of my better half – and memories of the companionship, trials and tribulations of the workplace were really hard to shake off. I still dream of being in some sort of ‘job’, and those dreams just will not go away.
So, what do we do? Well, we look around for things to occupy us, don’t we?
For seniors, there are many activities, physical, semi-physical and sedentary, but probably the most important of these is how we keep our brains active. Games such as Sudoku, Chess, Solitaire and memory and recognition versions of Mahjong played on electronic devices are good contenders, but I needed something more.
I’d studied all my life, it seems, from the moment I started school (although I was an awful student, accused of a ‘supercilious smile’, staring out of the window, and having the ability to decimate a forest with all the ‘new leaves’ I had to ‘turn over’) to very recently when I became a ‘Doctor’.
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This article was kindly written for the SDC by member Alan G.
Retirement is a period in our lives many of us really look forward to, but after the initial euphoria, we tend to actually miss our time at work.
For me, it had been over 50 years of being a responsible ‘breadwinner’ – albeit with the invaluable help of my better half – and memories of the companionship, trials and tribulations of the workplace were really hard to shake off. I still dream of being in some sort of ‘job’, and those dreams just will not go away.
So, what do we do? Well, we look around for things to occupy us, don’t we?
For seniors, there are many activities, physical, semi-physical and sedentary, but probably the most important of these is how we keep our brains active. Games such as Sudoku, Chess, Solitaire and memory and recognition versions of Mahjong played on electronic devices are good contenders, but I needed something more.
I’d studied all my life, it seems, from the moment I started school (although I was an awful student, accused of a ‘supercilious smile’, staring out of the window, and having the ability to decimate a forest with all the ‘new leaves’ I had to ‘turn over’) to very recently when I became a ‘Doctor’.
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