Lecture on Retirement to be Held at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – There will be a lecture by Dr. David J. Ekerdt on Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. The lecture, titled "Why is Retirement in Your Face?," is free and open to the public.

Ekerdt is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on decision-making processes for later life and the transition from work to retirement. His lecture will extend his most recent investigation of the selling of retirement and the profiteering within the nation's "aging enterprise."

Among his many works, Ekerdt has written "Eddies in the stream: The prevalence of uncertain plans for retirement," Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and the now-classic "The busy ethic: Moral continuity between work and retirement," The Gerontologist.

The lecture is sponsored by the Consortium Gerontology Studies Program and the Gerontology Club; it is co-sponsored by Holy Cross' Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies.