"The boomer generation will be reaching traditional retirement age very soon and the enormous wave of boomer retirees will crest in 2025," said Dr. Cooper. "

With the dramatic rise in longevity, healthy goal-driven boomers will seek purposeful leisure - a time for regeneration, rejuvenation, and lower-stress contributions to society and their own personal wealth."

Referring to her new book, Dr. Cooper notes that it is not a typical retirement-planning book nor is it a personal finance book.

"This book looks at the optimal transition to late life and what it takes to achieve a successful final third of your life. I examine how we can prepare to give ourselves the best chance of physical and mental well-being as well as financial security. We can actually regenerate rather than degenerate," she said.

The book focuses on a number of subjects related to retirement and includes the following key points on each: > The New Retirement: How it will Change our Future is a Viking Canada hardcover from Penguin Group (Canada), and is now on sale at major bookstores.