After 50 It’s Up to Us” is about planning ahead because learning and sharpening the right skills early will make all the difference in our quality of life each day after 50.
As the first generation to be so long-lived, we face the challenge of taking personal responsibility for the quality of our extended lives. Based on in-depth interviews
with Americans between the ages of fifty and ninety-seven,

Dr. Schofield weaves new frameworks for thinking and tools for clear communication into a useful picture. He makes wisdom accessible, revealing rare insights and mind- opening possibilities. This book is a vital resource for 77 million Americans who want to embrace life and invest in themselves and their futures now.

A recognized expert, Dr. Schofield teaches the reader how to develop these skills. Using interviews with a variety of intriguing individuals as a springboard, he employs both illustrations and guided analysis of chapter points.

This book is for everyone approaching or over 50. What we were good at in the past may not be what we’ll need to be good at in the future; in fact, it may become an obstacle. Thriving beyond 50 requires special abilities, a changed or entirely new set of abilities.
Schofield’s chapter titles are revealing: the first chapter, “Running into the Wall Again,” deals with the conclusions he gradually arrived at as he passed through his mid-fifties and realized he needed to rethink his approach to the second half of his life.

By Chapter four, “Life Often Doesn’t go According to Plan. Planning is Essential Anyway,” readers have already met numerous post-fifty men and women, all of whom share their unique, yet strikingly similar stories of how aging has affected their own approaches to life.  The chapter concludes with Schofield’s list of “10 Key Realities after 50”

Several chapters also include a list of questions for the reader, making  “After 50 It’s Up to Us” not simply an incisive look at the challenges of life after 50, but a book with useful tools anyone can access right away. http://www.georgeschofield.com.