Introduction: Retirement is combining with extensive changes in everyday life, opportunities, expectations, hopes and fears. Since retirement is a major event in the lives of many people and necessary to coping, it discussed as an important issue for health care professionals. The aim of this review article was exploration of coping to retirement.
Methods: In this systematic review that was done during 2009-2011, we were collected and analyzed all studies and references in retirement and coping with retirement (Persian and English), without time limitation. This review study was carried out using ISI, MEDLINE and CINAHL database that cover a wide range of scientific literature and journals, the index published their research. Studies in Persian through electronic databases including the Scientific Information Database (SID), Database of Medical Sciences in Iran articles (IranMedex), Institute for Scientific Information and Documentation Iran (IranDoc), Country Information (Magiran) and (Medlib) and search engine (Google) search was performed with Persian words. In addition, offline search that were available in retirement, refer to the archive library journals, dissertations and books, references were also presented at conferences and resources. The results of this search was to obtain after primary investigate of 297 relevant references and finally among of 98 references that the most appropriate in terms of coverage of the subject with emphasis on various aspects of retirement and coping to retirement, were used for this article. These references include of quantitative and qualitative studies, books, and abstracts of research projects.
Results: The key concepts involve to coping in retirement include of: “Preparation”, “Healthy”, “Identifying” and “Supporting”, that by precise identification, orderly and planned all the relevant studies can be helpful and effective in coping with retirement.
Conclusion: Retirement coping is possible with emphasis on create preparation to retirement, identify of retiree, maintain healthy and enjoyment from supporting of family, leaders, organizations and community. Identify of this concept, creating of social positive attitude towards the phenomenon of retirement are the essential and necessary in coping to retirement.