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Are pre-retirees setting expectations too high?

A quarter of retirees dont believe their lives are better now that they are retired, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.

By Paula Aven Gladych | Updated on September 28, 2011

A quarter of retirees don’t believe their lives are better now that they are retired, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The poll looked at retirement views and experiences for people over age 50 who have retired, those who plan to and those who do not plan to do so. What they found is that people who haven’t retired yet may have an idealized view of what retirement will be like, the report said.

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