[Opinion]

9/5/2006: Provide Protections from Retirement's Pitfalls (Richard W. Johnson, Special to washingtonpost.com's ThinkTank Town)

Excerpt: With Americans living longer and healthier than ever before, many aging baby boomers have rallied behind the cliché that 60 is the new 40. Some act as if they've discovered a fountain of youth that will extend their robust health and steady employment indefinitely. But as earlier generations discovered, many things can go wrong as people approach retirement.