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    Want to live longer? Keep working into your eighties

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    1. TimesandSundayTimes on

      Gone is the era of counting down the days until you turn 65 and can enjoy a quiet retirement in the pub or on the golf course.

      A growing cohort of people are instead working well into their seventies and eighties, a report by Bupa has found, driven by a desire to stave off dementia and loneliness in old age.

      One in four over-55s believe working past retirement age will help them to live longer, and workplaces are being encouraged to do more to retain these older staff

    3. plageiusdarth on

      WONDERFUL NEWS! Perhaps eventually we can achieve immortality such that we can slave for our ultra-rich masters throughout eternity, while continuing to scrape together funds enough for survival.

    6. hmm_nah on

      >The report found…remaining employed in later life had “substantial and often overlooked health benefits”.

      This is the only sentence in this piece which implies the existence of **empirical evidence** that the title is true. Everything else is fluff. It is followed by:

      >A survey of 8,000 adults found that half of over-55s believed working past retirement age would help to keep their brains active, and one in four believed it could help them to live longer.

      … which makes me wonder if “the report” is simply a summary of this survey. In which case they actually have 0 evidence.

    7. CleverNameThing on

      Continuing to contribute to the soulless corporate machine will kill me sooner. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with the premise. “Work” could mean volunteer work. You just need purpose. The article probably says all this, but you know, then I’d have to click and read stuff. Who has time for that?

    8. mxlun on

      Thanks for the advice billionaire overlords. I will make sure to never retire. Do you want my 401k too?

    10. llehctim3750 on

      Oh, this is European. American businesses like to get rid of older workers because they make too much money.

    11. Consistent_Pitch782 on

      I love how this is presented as optional. I’m not going to be able to retire, so working into my 80’s was always the only choice I had

    12. pauljs75 on

      The evaluation is backwards though. Those people being old on the job have a job that they want to do.

      The issue is that too many people have a job that makes them reconsider why they even want to wake up the next day.