There have been a lot of articles written about retirement in recent years. In the main media most of this attention has been towards money issues regarding pensions and the quality of life. To be honest with you a lot of the attention makes grim reading as it soon starts to surface that in a lot of the developed nations the rise in an elderly population means that there are fewer people in work to support their pensions.
In the days gone by retirement used to mean that a person had reached a pre determined age where they could stop working as a necessity and live from a sum of money set aside over their working years for their retirement. That’s the basic dry facts about retirement that are discussed in some form in most issues about retirement and pensions. What I would like to do though is ask you a question.
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