What Is the Ideal Retirement Age for Your Health? NYTimes

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What Is the Ideal Retirement Age for Your Health? NYTimes

Average life expectancy has risen by 16 years since the national retirement age was set at 65. We asked health experts when they think people should stop working now. 

He found that Americans who are healthy at age 50 can expect to have roughly 23 more years free of disability, plus about eight years living with disability. That would suggest people’s maximum working life expectancy, on average, is age 73.(Well at 50 I was extremely healthy, At 50 years 4 months I had my stroke. Worked for another 12 years before retiring. )

For people working in knowledge-based jobs, a retirement age in the 70s is reasonable from a cognitive perspective, too, said Lisa Renzi-Hammond, director of the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Georgia. “Our cognitive faculties we’re able to maintain, usually, pretty well into our 70s,” she said. “If retirement age is set based on the capabilities or competence of employees, there’s absolutely no reason to have a retirement age in the 60s.” (Wrong, my job was cognitive, computer programming, but travel 25-30 weeks each year was a disaster for my health; poor sleep, no exercise, eating out all the time.)