"It's only in the last 2 or 3 generations that we had retirement..."
Sep 01, 2016, 12:39 PM
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"It's only in the last 2 or 3 generations that we had retirement. The previous 40,000 generations of people on this planet didn't retire, they worked until they dropped." - Prof. David Blake
Via Radio 4:
Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 has been increasing steadily for the past four decades.
This demographic success story brings its dilemmas for today's retirees: how to plan for a retirement that could easily last 20 years, and how to find enough money for expensive care fees.