Enjoying a Healthy Retirement: EDU #2619
The Retirement and IRA Show
Jim Saulnier, CFP® & Chris Stein, CFP®
4.3 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Chris’s Summary
Jim and I are joined by Dr. Philip Snyder, in what we hope is his first appearance of many, as we discuss what a healthy retirement requires. In this episode we discuss health span versus life span, or how long a person stays vibrant and independent versus how long they simply live. grounded in the idea that a retirement plan is not only about how long money lasts but how long someone is healthy enough to enjoy it
Jim’s “Pithy” Summary
Chris and I are joined by Dr. Philip Snyder as we dig into what a healthy retirement actually means. We say it all the time on this show – we’re not getting younger, stronger, or healthier – but most retirement plans are built around all your retirement years being the same. Maybe only five, eight, or ten of them will be your go-go year where you can truly enjoy spending. That is exactly why we wanted a physician in this conversation who, for the record, genuinely geeks out on retirement.
Dr. Snyder puts some real numbers around how long the average person stays vibrant and independent and how those numbers compare to average lifespan. That gap has direct implications for how you think about your Fun Number
and when to spend it. He also gets into specific, measurable indicators that can give you a clearer picture of where you personally stand.
Right now, no tool exists that can do for the go-go window what long-term care software already does for future care costs. That question comes up directly in this conversation and Dr. Snyder has a view on what variables such a tool would actually need, and what could be coming on that front.
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| 1:25.8 | and Chris with today's show. |
| 1:34.6 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Retirement and IRA show EDU edition for this week. |
| 1:40.5 | We can take the show in a little bit different direction today. Today we're going to introduce what I think will become a really valuable recurring feature, hopefully, on the show. |
| 1:45.0 | We spend a lot of time on here talking about retirement topics, income, tax planning, social security, |
| 1:52.9 | long-term care, all those financial pieces. But as most of you know, there's another important |
| 1:59.1 | side of retirement, and that's your health |
| 2:01.0 | throughout retirement. So the truth is a great retirement plan is not just about how long your money |
| 2:07.8 | lasts, but also how long you're healthy enough to enjoy it. That kind of plays really into our |
| 2:13.8 | philosophy with the go-go, slow-go, no-go period. We talk about a lot. That's very much |
| 2:18.7 | health-related. So joining us today, we've got a special guest, Dr. Philip Snyder. Philip is |
| 2:25.2 | currently an assistant professor and department chair for primary care in rural medicine at the |
| 2:29.8 | Edward V. College of Osteopathic Medicine in Auburn, Alabama. In addition to teaching medical |
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