My aunt (about 65) recently retired and she kept being active: she goes to yoga classes, hydrogymnastics, classes where they do memory exercises/games, and she helps my cousin with his car-rental business.
This is awesome, but part of it is enabled by her being relatively high class. These kinds of things should be sponsored by the government because they keep people healthy.
I remember reading somewhere that mortality risk increases considerably after retirement, plausibly because people become more sedentary.
PS I'm in Portugal if you're wondering. Here they call it Senior University - a bit better than Third Age if you ask me.
There's also a correlation/causality question -- perhaps mortality causes retirement -- people work until they can't work, and they can live bit longer because living is a bit easier than working.
This is awesome, but part of it is enabled by her being relatively high class. These kinds of things should be sponsored by the government because they keep people healthy.
I remember reading somewhere that mortality risk increases considerably after retirement, plausibly because people become more sedentary.
PS I'm in Portugal if you're wondering. Here they call it Senior University - a bit better than Third Age if you ask me.