Bored to Death?
You spent all this time and effort getting to retirement, just to take it easy for a change. Suddenly you realize you’re bored. How’d that happen?
Maybe the old model of retirement doesn’t suit you because it’s BORING.
Worse yet, that old model can make you sick, even kill you.
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I so agree! Can you forward the names of studies that back these ideas? Thanks.
Hi Retiree Rebel.. Here’s a list (below) of some of the work I tapped for the Boredom Can Kill You! essay. You’ll note I’m big on google, but the main spark came from a phone interview with Nancy Morrow-Howell of the Friedman Center.. who send me the attached power point presentation (note page 16 and after) about some of the center’s recent research. The example of the elders filling soldier care packages came from them.
Am happy that you are interested in further study, as this conclusion scared me and some of our other listeners. But I can still hear my mother saying, ‘Oh look, science has finally proved something we all knew already..’.
Carol L.
You can look up Friedman by googling their name, lots of good stuff there.
Nancy Morrow-Howell, MSW, PhD
Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy
Director, Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging
Washington University
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