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Retiring Retirement

A Growing Portion of the Elderly Look and Act Anything But

Nautilus, 2016

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Recommendation

The US government set the age of eligibility for the national pension program at 65 in 1935, when health and life expectancies were drastically different from today. Writer Linda Marsa, herself over age 65, reveals why retirement is a persistent but outdated concept. Data show that many older adults are willing and able to continue working and that the economy will need them to do so. Progressive companies are starting to adapt the workplace to accommodate them and profiting from it. getAbstract recommends this article to mature workers and those in a position to hire them.

Take-Aways

  • Since the US government created a retirement age of 65 for the national pension plan, people have thought of over-65s as “old,” less healthy and less independent.
  • Older workers are healthier than previous generations and generally better educated than the young, but employers persist in preferring younger workers.
  • The economy will need older workers, since the number of jobs exceeds the number of “working age” people.

About the Author

Linda Marsa is a contributing editor at Discover magazine and author of Fevered: How a Hotter Planet Will Harm Our Health.


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