Does Retirment Cause Ill Health?

Research Shows that Retirement will cause Ill Health

Now here is some news that will send chills down your spin if you are the working people of the world. According to research in America, it is bad for your health, if you retire completely.

I can imagine what all you 64 year old workers out there will be saying to this news. I for one am only 29 and I can’t wait to retire (I Know I am lazy) but our government (UK) are moving the goal posts so that by the time I retire I will need to work till I am 70.

Now according to the General Register Office for Scotland (where I live), the average life expectancy is 73 years old.

Is their many people out there who want to work for 70 years just to get a 3 and half year holiday after it, no I don’t think so but we will have a vote to find out.

One of the main reasons we will have to work longer is because they say life expectancy is getting longer. Other people think it is because the governments of the past and present have spent the pension pot.

I am skeptical of this new data and think it will be another line of spin from the US government. Planting the seed before raising the age of retirement. Is this a coincidence during the time of recession? Are the money men of the US looking at the pension pot and saying – what if everyone had to work a little longer, that would mean we could spend that money – way hay.

The survey carried out goes a little something like this:

“People should not stop working completely when they retire, according to new US research. Old Woman 400Researchers at the University of Maryland made a study of 12,189 retired people. They found that those among them who kept working after retirement had fewer major illnesses, as well as functioning better on a daily basis.”

Ye probably because the ill retired people, could not work because they were ill.

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