Dr. Timothy Scott
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 As a personal friend I was aware back in 2000 that Gary would be taking an early retirement in the not too distant future but by the end of 2001, the plunging value of his retirement account meant early retirement was not possible, and he would have to start all over. His retirement still won't come for many years.
Enron was America's seventh largest corporation one year before it suddenly began to collapse and had to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The mammoth $77 billion company began 2001 with its stock price at over $80 a share. By October the price was under $40. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Before long, the retirement age will be higher than the average lifespan age, meaning that you'll actually have to wait until the afterlife to start collecting your retirement checks. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Plus, there's no such thing as retirement. Now, we're not recommending that you subject yourself to the same corporate punishment that's graying your hair and beating you down. But we are recommending that even in retirement, you find a way to continue working-either as a volunteer or for pay-at something you enjoy. It'll help you stay active physically and mentally, give you a life-enhancing sense of purpose, and help you maintain the strong social ties that are so necessary for stress management.
YOU Tip: Be Money Smart. One of the biggest drivers of stress is financial woes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Medicare or Social Security benefits to anyone who reaches retirement age, so perhaps it's finding new ways to make sure people never reach retirement age! Keep 'em alive long enough to work 'em to death and collect their tax revenues, then knock 'em off before the benefits kick in!
It's not as far fetched as it sounds: Social Security payout benefits start at age 65, and the average lifespan of a U.S. citizens is currently 77.6 years. But within the next fifty years, that number is expected to fall to 72. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Baby boomers will not go gently into their elder years and retirement. In fact, we can reinvent both aging and retirement. After all, this was the generation whose activism and energy fed the idealism of the 1960s. If we all take the actions necessary for changing our own lives and advocate for greater societal changes, we can begin to construct a new framework for aging in our culture.
"let thy food be thy medicine": can better nutrition keep us vital?
This ancient injunction by the Greek father of medicine, Hippocrates, still seems to have commonsensical value today. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Medicare or Social Security benefits to anyone who reaches retirement age, so perhaps it's finding new ways to make sure people never reach retirement age! Keep 'em alive long enough to work 'em to death and collect their tax revenues, then knock 'em off before the benefits kick in!
It's not as far fetched as it sounds: Social Security payout benefits start at age 65, and the average lifespan of a U.S. citizens is currently 77.6 years. But within the next fifty years, that number is expected to fall to 72. |
| Before long, the retirement age will be higher than the average lifespan age, meaning that you'll actually have to wait until the afterlife to start collecting your retirement checks. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Sure, there's some appeal to sleeping in, taking aquatic therapy classes, and becoming the over-sixty-five county shuffleboard champion. But retirement may not be the mental hammock that everyone expects it to be. Take three parts of the world where people have a greater chance of living to one hundred: Sardinia, Okinawa, and Costa Rica. In each of those areas, people have found ways to cope with stress. The communities have strong traditions of walking, building family strength, playing with kids, and being active. Plus, there's no such thing as retirement. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Apathy can become a defining characteristic for older folks, and it's particularly important to watch for when people move into retirement communities and nursing homes. Even in the best and homiest facilities, depression and a lack of motivation can set in as people feel they're just waiting to die.
I'm familiar with one retirement home that's doing something about this problem by trying to get the residents involved and interested in exercise. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Before long, the retirement age will be higher than the average lifespan age, meaning that you'll actually have to wait until the afterlife to start collecting your retirement checks. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 They were on the brink of retirement, and he was suffering from pulmonary hypertension, which had slowed him down a good bit. His illness had made him hidebound, rigid, and unhappy and threatened their dream of an easy retirement. As she worked this stage of the Gearshift, she saw a lock springing open, symbolizing to her that he was being freed from his resentment. You may not get a visual symbol like this; you may get color, sound, even smell, or just a strong feeling. If you get nothing, do not be alarmed. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 One of these former Hong Kong veterans was the administrator of a retirement home for many elderly men and women. Dr Hoffer was studying the effect of niacin on the aging process, and this veteran wanted to try it himself, so that he could discuss the associated flush more intelligently with the retirement home residents. Later, he described his 44-month experience in the Far East prison camp to Dr Hoffer and explained how sick he had been after coming back to Canada. |
Devra Davis
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 Of course, this study didn't ask what had happened to those who never made it to retirement.39 When she began looking at the patterns of death in the coke oven workers, even before she counted a single person, Redmond could tell there was something special about them. In the 1950s, and even as late as the 1980s, there was one major requirement for working the coke ovens. Those who ran the ovens were strong, often young, and most often black. At the time, nine out of every ten coke oven workers in southwestern Pennsylvania were black. |
Anne Harrington
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 Marital reconciliation (45 points) and retirement (also 45 points) are only half as stressful as the death of your spouse.
Minor violations of the law: 11 points. Trouble with the boss: 23. Christmas: 12. But sexual difficulties are less stressful than pregnancy (40 points versus 39). A mortgage over $10,000 is worse than a son (or daughter) leaving home. Trouble with your in-laws is as stressful as "outstanding personal achievement" which is only slightly more stressful than if "wife begins or stops work."... |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Yeah, sure, we know what your ideal picture of retirement looks like: one hammock, one baby-blue ocean, four naps a day. That's great and all, but one of the best ways to insure that your mind doesn't liquidate into the consistency of a pina colada is to continue to give it a reason to function. Work it. Challenge it. Teach it new things. Just take a look at a massive study done on a population of more than three thousand nuns. Researchers measured the daily mental and physical activities of living nuns and autopsied those who died during the study. |
Devra Davis
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| Jackson Memorial Laboratory in 1929 and ran it until his retirement in 19 5 6.32 The family members who provided the summary of this remarkable man's life let his last twenty-five years, the time he spent masterminding ways to magnify uncertainties about tobacco products, go unreported.
Some things reflect the failure of an entire sensibility.
-susan sontag
Politics, whether peopled by scientists or elected officials, make for curious bedfellows. Nowhere is this more evident than in the strange alliance that culminated in the 1960s between the chain-smoking head of the U.S. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Then follows an interval of more or less extended retirement, during which are enacted rituals designed to introduce the life adventurer to the forms and proper feelings of his new estate, so that when, at last, the time has ripened for the return to the normal world, the initiate will be as good as reborn.10
Most amazing is the fact that a great number of the ritual trials and images correspond to those that appear automatically in dream the moment the psychoanalyzed patient begins to abandon his infantile fixations and to progress into the future. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Sometimes those cells are killed directly by the damage (that's called necrosis), while in other instances, damage accumulates over time, and the cells eventually go into retirement. That process is called senescence— when the cells stop dividing permanently, or they undergo apoptosis (the cell death we described earlier in the book), in which they're broken up and reabsorbed. |
| Living longer, plus retirement income. But no! Although they were living longer, the rats complained that their quality of life had declined (probably because of the lack of golf courses or bingo). But since calories represent energy and energy is required to function, it wasn't surprising that the rats were tired all the time. What is surprising, though, is that their sluggishness passed.
After a few months, the rats felt their strength returning. The spring was back in their crawl. They were spending more and more time running on their little rat treadmills. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Sire, this is one who has retired from the world'; and the charioteer thereupon proceeded to sound the praises of retirement from the world. The thought of retiring from the world was a pleasing one to the Future Buddha." 9 This first stage of the mythological journey—which we have designated the "call to adventure"—signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown. |
Devra Davis
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| Only a small proportion of those who spent their lives in this work lived to claim retirement benefits. Redmond looked at men who quit before retiring, as well as those who got their pensions. The former had twice as much lung cancer as the latter.41 The notion that there is a typical amount of lung cancer may seem odd. But in fact, in any group, there will be a certain number of people who develop this disease. When Redmond began her studies, researchers already understood that the rate of lung cancer itself was changing fast because of cigarette smoking. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| But we are recommending that even in retirement, you find a way to continue working-either as a volunteer or for pay-at something you enjoy. It'll help you stay active physically and mentally, give you a life-enhancing sense of purpose, and help you maintain the strong social ties that are so necessary for stress management.
YOU Tip: Be Money Smart. One of the biggest drivers of stress is financial woes. Not coincidentally, health problems are the major driver of bankruptcy, and then bankruptcy cycles back to be a major driver of more stress-related health problems. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Sex After 50 Can Be Better than Ever
You can get better at sex and enjoy it more— at any age. With retirement's gift of time, you can learn how your body works differently from its younger self, what pleases you and how to please each other in new ways.
PRACTICAL MATTERS
Yes, bodies change with age. Many women start to feel old and asexual at menopause. Men may develop erectile problems. But most difficulties can be overccme.
Physical change: Chronic conditions, such as diabetes, thyroid disease, cancer, Parkinson's disease and depression, can affect sexual function. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Slightly opening the door of the heavenly rock-dwelling, she spoke thus from within: "I thought that owing to my retirement the plain of heaven would be dark, and likewise the central land of reed plains would all be dark: how then is it that Uzume makes merry, and that likewise the eight millions of gods all laugh?" Then Uzume spoke, saying: "We rejoice and are glad because there is a deity more illustrious than Thine Augustness. |
Anne Harrington
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| Getting married is 3 points more stressful
Rank Life event Mean value
1 Death of spouse 100
2 Divorce 73
3 Marital separation 65
4 Jail term 63
5 Death of close family member 63
6 Personal injury or illness 53
7 Marriage 50
8 Fired at work 47
9 Marital reconciliation 45
10 retirement 45
11 Change in health of family member 44
12 Pregnancy 40
13 Sex difficulties 39
14 Gain of new family member . |
Devra Davis
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| From 1948 until his retirement in 1968, Hueper led its first section on environmental cancer, where he provided original experimental research and synthesized the world's literature on avoidable causes of the disease. He is the person Rachel Carson credited in her path-breaking 1963 book Silent
Spring for exposing the connections between the environment and cancer. What began as a dream for Hueper slowly became a nightmare.
Ro bert Kehoe took a different path. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Dr Hoffer was studying the effect of niacin on the aging process, and this veteran wanted to try it himself, so that he could discuss the associated flush more intelligently with the retirement home residents. Later, he described his 44-month experience in the Far East prison camp to Dr Hoffer and explained how sick he had been after coming back to Canada.
He had been depressed, experienced severe arthritis, was fearful, was heat and cold intolerant, and had spent some time on a psychiatric ward for veterans. He had been diagnosed as having a personality disorder. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Also, longevity in retirement homes is linked with higher levels of cholesterol. Recent studies published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) indicate that a low level of overall blood cholesterol could increase a person's risk of suicide.
A study published in The Lancet in 1997 showed that high total cholesterol levels are associated with longevity, particularly among the elderly. The research suggests that elderly people with elevated cholesterol levels live longer and are less likely to die from cancer or infection. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| PHYSICAL EXERCISE: STEADY DOES IT
For anyone over sixty, I recommend exercising almost every day. In retirement, why not? Six days a week would be ideal, but make it fun rather than work. It's a good idea to use a heart rate monitor. They're invaluable for keeping track of your progress, and this is both motivating and reassuring. You're not left wondering whether you've done enough, at the proper intensity. |
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