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How LGBTQ Solo Agers Can Retire Successfully

Season 1, Episode 438 | Published On: September 19, 2023

What are the biggest retirement challenges for LGBTQ solo agers

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How LGBTQ solo agers can live their best life

Does the thought of retirement keep you up at night? Not necessarily because of finances, but because you live alone and don’t have children to help take care of you? Retirees who are aging alone or without family support are called solo agers. Because LGBTQ+ individuals are less likely to have children than our straight counterparts, many of us fall into this category. But what if you could be single and child-free without being lonely? What if you could create your own ‘Golden Girls’ retirement?

Dr. Sara Zeff Geber is the Retirement Transition Coach behind Life Encore, a platform that helps people with no children or aging alone lead a safe, fulfilling life in their retirement years. An expert in the realm of solo aging, Dr. Geber is the recipient of the 2018 Influencers in Aging designation and the author of Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers: A Retirement and Aging Roadmap for Single and Childless Adults.

On this episode of Queer Money®, Dr. Geber joins us to explain how isolation impacts our health, challenging us to find a community and nurture intergenerational relationships as we age. Dr. Geber walks us through the six elements of a fulfilling life in our later years, describing how to see aging not as lost youth but as a new stage of opportunity and growth.

Listen in for Dr. Geber’s insight on housing options for LGBTQ+ solo agers (in the US or abroad) and learn how to live your best life in retirement, staying mentally and physically fit as long as possible!

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Topics covered on LGBTQ solo agers 

  • How Dr. Geber defines a solo ager as anyone aging alone or without family support
  • Why having kids increases the likelihood of having family support in older age
  • Why so many people don’t plan for care as we age (even though 70% of us will need it)
  • Seeing aging not as lost youth but as a new stage of opportunity and growth
  • The relationship between living your best life until the end and belonging to a community
  • How isolation and loneliness impact our health as we get older
  • Dr. Geber’s advice on developing relationships with young people in your community
  • Dr. Geber’s 6 elements of a fulfilling life in your later years
  • The biggest challenges for solo agers when it comes to retirement planning
  • Dr. Geber’s insight on housing options for solo agers in the LGBTQ community
  • The pros and cons of retiring abroad and places with significant expat communities
  • Why Dr. Geber suggests long-term care insurance vs. counting solely on Medicare

 

 

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We’re David and John Auten-Schneider, the Debt Free Guys (www.debtfreeguys.com), and the Queer Money® podcast hosts. We help queer people (and allies) live fabulously, not fabulously broke, by helping them 1) pay off credit card debt, 2) become part- or full-time entrepreneurs and 3) save and invest for retirement.

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