Cue the second act: What's the next step when work ends? Today's retirees are pursuing opportunities like starting small businesses or launching philanthropic endeavors

• The Case Against Retirement

  Financial and demographic developments point toward Americans working into their golden years. And that's a good thing

• Launching Startups in Retirement

  Seniors are finding ways to earn profits, often doing what they love, after closing out their careers. The trick is getting the seed money

• Slide Show: Encore Careers: 16 Success Stories

  Here is a look at 18 people who have launched new careers, often motivated by a passion, on their own terms.

• How to Discover Your Encore Career

  Undertaking a post-retirement career can be daunting—but rewarding. BusinessWeek asked experts for tips to help you start your second act

• Video: How to Search for an Encore Career

  Marci Alboher, senior fellow at Civic Ventures and a career expert and author, recommends volunteering or tapping your social network to find new career opportunities

• How to Move Beyond the DIY Transition to Encore Careers

  Among the changes needed to help older workers transition to their next phase of life: adapting educational programs, new financing, and public policy innovations

• Video: Tips for a Retirement Career

  One of the fastest-growing groups of self-employed workers is those age 55 to 64. Lynne Ford, head of retail retirement at Wells Fargo, explains why it’s important to have a financial plan

• Archive: Saving Up for Career No. 2

  As more seniors turn to second careers instead of retiring, their savings help them get by while they do what they want

• Archive: Seniors as Entrepreneurs: Their Time Has Come

  Economic volatility plus more boomer retirees have moved the starting age for startups and led to a surge of senior-run businesses

• Archive: Thinking of Retiring? Not So Fast

  BusinessWeek reader Rebecca Weingarten sees longer careers as opportunities for richer and more fulfilled working lives

• Archive: Unretired: Retirees are Back, Looking for Work

  They saved. They planned. Then housing tanked and the markets melted. Now they need jobs, and there aren't any

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