The Retirement Years provides Ellen White's counsel for believers approaching or experiencing retirement age. This compilation addresses unique spiritual, physical, and practical challenges facing older adults. Topics typically include: maintaining spiritual vitality in later years, continued usefulness for God's cause, health maintenance for elderly, preparing for death and eternity, avoiding idleness and uselessness, mentoring younger generations, financial stewardship in retirement, and finding purpose beyond career. White emphasized that retirement from employment doesn't mean retirement from service, that age brings wisdom and experience valuable for God's work, and that later years provide opportunities for spiritual growth and witness. The counsel helps seniors embrace aging purposefully while preparing for transition to eternal life.
Retirees and those approaching retirement, elderly church members, those caring for aging parents, and anyone seeking biblical perspective on aging purposefully.