Our Blog Posts About Older and Mature Age People
My message to the IBR 2024 Post Retirement Conference
Women facing retirement with low super balances I spoke on a panel about people with ‘modest’ superannuation. The panel was asked to discuss what superannuation funds could do for members…
Liminality and betwixt and between-ness
What do I mean by ‘betwixt and between’? There are times in life when we feel betwixt and between, when our identity is shifting. It is as if we are…
Susan Bell Research is on the MAS panel
You can find us as The Bell Settlement The Management Advisory Services (MAS) Panel is for government buyers. We are here. We are specialists in research about the older demographic,…
Find out why I am a breath of fresh air!
Retirement Myths: podcast interview Here is the link to my interview as a guest on the Art 2 Aging podcast, where I talked with Chris Henry about the trends in…
Four pre-retiree mindsets
Older people “believe that they can exert agency at the exact moment when it is needed.” Sarah Holland Batt As the quote from Sarah Holland Batt above says, the current…
Avoid these ‘Ageing is Failing’ myths
From all our research with people in the ‘older’ or mature age demographic, we can tell you one thing: it is soooo easy to get this age group wrong. People…
The truth behind three myths about spending in retirement
Susan Bell Research designed and conducted a survey commissioned by Super Consumers Australia into how and why people over 65 were drawing down their super. The survey busts some of…
As we age, we gain a type of intelligence called ‘crystallised’ intelligence
This means that people draw on what they already know. Crystallised intelligence comes from our experiences and the knowledge we have stored in long term memory. We become very good…
Insights about upcoming retirees
In this post I summarise some recent academic work on retirement focussing on people who could retire but don’t, or who are going through the transition to retirement, and add…
