Third, the transition to retirement is now seen as occurring in many forms and as reflecting a diversity of person and environmental variables. Attention is increasingly drawn to ‘‘blurred’’ retirements, uncertain starts, reentries, bridges, phase-ins, and unemployment turning into ‘‘retirement.’’ Such complexity can not be understood from just one perspective (e.g., career-choice theory). Here, too, analyses must begin to consider contextual factors (e.g., economic, health, family, occupational and environmental).