Your life expectancy is the age that you are expected to live to, based on your age now. As you get older, your chances of living to an older age improve.
When you're retired, it's important to have housing and other living arrangements that are appropriate to your lifestyle, state of health and financial position.
Equity release is about allowing you to release some of the value of a major asset to help you pay for your retirement or for a major expense.
Glossary: Equity
Glossary: asset
An asset is a useful or valuable person or thing. In financial terms it's an item that can be converted into cash such as bank deposits, shares or property.
Welcome to Sorted 60plus. If you're semi-retired or retired, or if you are simply wondering what life will be like when you're semi-retired or retired 60plus is for you.
At Sorted 60plus you can find information on living in your semi-retired / retired years and calculators to help you work out how best to manage your nest egg.
Women live longer than men. Currently, a 65 year old women can expect to live about three to four years longer than a 65 year old man. This longer life expectancy means women:
Before you choose a retirement village, you need to consider the quality of life that it offers. There is a wide range of things you need to think about.