This study was carried out to find out some of the post-retirement activities of the retired men and women 200 retirees (100 men and 100 women) formed the subject of the study. Their mean age was 57 years. Their minimum educational level was secondary school certificate. Reports were obtained from them about the different changes in their life styles since they retired from their first employment There was a significant decline in the expenditure aspect of the retirees. Significant increase in social contact, domestic work and recreation were reported. The implications for both pre-retirement and post-retirement counselling were discussed.
1.1 Introduction
In this section, Post-Retirement Life Styles of Some Nigerians and the Counselling Implications is discussed, with relevant and recent citations. As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the aim and objectives of the study. Others are significance of the study, scope of work, research hypothesis and questions, limitation of the study and definition of terms.