Century Lives

If there is one thing we know about retirement, it’s that the rules are changing. Longer life, better health, changing work conditions, and challenging financial times mean that the new retirement will be different from the old. But how will it be different? In Season 5 of Century Lives, we explore the new retirement through the stories of eight different employees of Harris Health, the largest public health system in Texas. The employees are united by the fact that they share the same workplace, but they are divided by very different personal stories and goals – and very different financial situations. They are nurses, doctors, carpenters, CEOs, and security officers, and they are imagining very different retirements.

Social Sciences
Health & Fitness
Society & Culture
1
The Generational Shift
24 min
2
I Will Never Retire
29 min
3
My Next Act
25 min
4
The Classic
24 min
5
The Struggle
32 min
6
Meet The Boss
22 min
7
Alone Again—Unnaturally
36 min
8
Zombie Takis
35 min
9
The Emerald Necklace
34 min
10
Heat is (Not) My Jam
34 min
11
It Takes a Village
37 min
12
New Mexico Could Not Hear the Train
36 min
13
Moving to Opportunity
32 min
14
Birmingham, Alabama
35 min
15
Wayne County, Kentucky
29 min
16
Co-op City
34 min
17
American Exceptionalism
27 min
18
Presidio
39 min
19
Bashima Islam and the Battery Revolution
18 min
20
Siddhartha Roy vs. the Hulk
19 min
21
Sophie Beren, Unifier
18 min
22
Dr. Raven the Science Maven
17 min
23
Justin Brezhnev: Hacker Cat
19 min
24
The Unretirement
28 min
25
Work After 50
30 min