COVID-19 and retirement counselling: Parents who retired early with little children‘s perspective and implications for inclusive policies.
- Title
- COVID-19 and retirement counselling: Parents who retired early with little children‘s perspective and implications for inclusive policies.
- Author(s)
- Edeh, M.O., & Okeke, C.I.O. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2022 See all items with this value
- Description
- Life after the world of work has been consistently reported to be unpleasant. Upon this, COVID-19 became a huge threat to people, especially older citizens who are seen as atrisk population. Given this, the present researchers reviewed related literature to explore and understand COVID-19 pressures on retirees and draw inferences about possible retirement counselling services. Related extant studies on COVID-19, retirement counselling, and policies were reviewed. The review shows common perspective that COVID-19 pressures were more on older population compared to others. It also indicated that retirement counsellors could provide information, persona-social, counselling, career services and among others to the retirees to cushion the adverse effects of COVID-19 pandemic. Retirement comes with a slew of obstacles both before (pre-retirement), after (post-retirement) and notably during COVID-19. Hence, it recommends that would-be retirees should plan ahead and make suitable adjustments to cope with this unavoidable stage of life and its upheaval. Retirees should consult social welfare officers and counsellors for professional assistance. In conclusion, this paper encourages support service providers to educate, re-orient, re-direct, and re-channel these senior retirees, a professional retirement counsellor is desperately needed to help them acquire better tactics and adjustment abilities so they can fit in correctly.
- Publisher
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Proceedings of the Global Education Network.
BA Isago University Botswana, 24 – 26 October 2022. See all items with this value - Keywords
- COVID-19 pressures, Parents with little children, Retirement Counselling, Inclusive policies See all items with this value
- isbn
- 978-978-59206-6-6
- pages
- 270-277
- Item sets
- Conference Papers/Proceedings
- Media
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