Human Spark

Everyday, we do amazing work at Human Spark for global enterprise clients: Strategic-level qualitative research and analysis, service design and blueprinting, product design, writing and communications design, visual design, and implementation.

More often than not, our work is highly sensitive, under NDA, and intended for internal audiences only. It’s rare when we get a chance to celebrate our work in a public forum. Today is different.

For anyone starting a career, planning for retirement, or caregiving for dependents or aging relatives, we present the No Normal Retirement Journey Map and Guide. Please share far and wide.

Americans planning for retirement face once-in-a-generation challenges presented by today’s persistent high inflation, market volatility, economic uncertainty, and pandemic-related health care concerns. This amidst a wave of Baby Boomers retiring—10,000 a day and accelerating—that will peak in 2024 when the U.S. will have more 65-year-olds than ever in its history. It’s in this environment that Georgetown University’s AgingWell Hub has released the first No Normal Retirement Journey Map and Guide, a practical and interactive tool for re-imagining and charting paths to and through retirement.

This new resource offers individuals tools to visualize and plan the various stages, events and decision points along the retirement journey, and the personal, emotional, and financial consequences of each. The Journey Map illustrates how six primary levers—health, finances, learning, purpose, community, and resilience—can be used to navigate the journey to a happy, financially secure and fulfilled life after a full-time career.

The Retirement Journey Map was developed by the Georgetown AgingWell Hub, designed by Human Spark, and commissioned through the support of the Alliance for Lifetime Income’s Retirement Income Institute. The Journey Map draws on the expertise of twenty-nine of the world’s leading experts on life in retirement as well as a comprehensive review and integration of findings from more than 200 pieces of research on the evolving nature of retirement.

“The nature of retirement is evolving and highly personal. It spans a non-linear path of growth and activity, such as the enjoyment of continued work, travel, volunteering, and family, through declining health and loss of independence at the end of life. The Journey Map represents various aspects of each retirement journey—the goals, decisions, emotions, and unforeseen events—with which individuals can identify,” says Jeanne de Cervens, director of the AgingWell Hub.

Retirement Income Institute

georgetown-agingwell-hub-no-normal-retirement-journey-maps-and-guide.pdf

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