Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.
Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Few people know how to be old.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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