Retirees' Leisure: Activities, Benefits, and their Contribution to Life Satisfaction

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Relationships between leisure activity types and well-being in older adults (2018, background): “Nimrod (2007) also demonstrated leisure participation as being the predominant determinant of greater life satisfaction in Jewish retirees aged 50 and over.”
In support of innovation theory: innovation in activity patterns and life satisfaction among recently retired individuals (2008, methodology): “From an Israeli study, the author found that recent retirees were more likely to reduce than increase their activity despite having more free time (Nimrod 2007a), and that both an increased number of activities and a raised frequency of participation (‘expanding’ and ‘concentrating’)…”
‘Colour and communion’: Exploring the influences of visual art-making as a leisure activity on older women's subjective well-being (2010, background): “Do cultural and creative occupations have a distinctive role to play in maintaining well-being in later life? Nimrod (2007) surveyed nearly 400 relatively young retirees with a mean age of 64 years, and relatively high levels of health, education and income.”
Learning From the Experiences of Older Adult Volunteers in Sport: A Serious Leisure Perspective (2010, methodology): “Recent research has focused on post-retirement and the leisure habits and preferences of this demographic (e.g., Gibson, Ashton-Shaeffer, Green, & Autry, 2003/2004; Guinn, 1999; Nimrod, 2007a,b).”