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It's supposed to be a time of leisure, when the worries of work are behind you, the kids are out on their own and you can live smartly on all that you’ve saved. But things have changed for many of New Hampshire’s retired population. The rise in fuel costs, the dropout in the housing market and severe dips on Wall Street have left many with deep monetary losses and extra costs. The result: some retirees have been forced to go back to work, others to sell their homes and live with relatives and still others to live much more inexpensively then they ever thought they would have had to. We’ll look at New Hampshire’s retired population and how hard the economic times have hit them.

Guests

• Ally McNair, Volunteer State President of the New Hampshire AARP
• Kathleen Otte, bureau chief at the state of New Hampshire's Bureau of Adult and Elderly Services

We'll also hear from

• Joanne Dodge, a retiree from the Seacoast who is trying to return to the workforce
• Priscilla Malcolm, Exchange volunteer who's been retired since 2004
• Mel Speirer, founder of Pocket Book Therapy, a Manchester program that helps lower-income elderly residents with financial issues