Do not fill someone’s retirement with tasks before they have had a chance to discover its rhythm.

Newly free time attracts claims immediately. The family assumes availability, the committee has a vacancy, and the jobs everyone was saving arrive in the first fortnight, so a person who has just left decades of scheduled obligation is scheduled again before working out what they want the days to hold. The empty stretch is not waste. It is how the next shape gets found.

If someone close to you has just stopped working, hold your requests for a while. Ask what they are enjoying before you ask what they could take on.