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January 26, 2009
By Carina Frey
Monsters and Critics.com

Bonn, Germany - Retirement once meant imminent death in many cases. People stopped working at age 65 and some dropped dead a few months later.

'This was a much greater problem in former times,' remarked Uwe Kleinemas, director of the Centre for the Cultures of Ageing at the University of Bonn. Thanks to improved working conditions, people today were no longer so physically exhausted at the end of their working lives.

Kleinemas noted a wholly different problem faced by many older people, however: 'They want to continue working but are not permitted to do so.' This, too, can be hazardous to health.

Retirement per se is not a risk factor. According to a study by the Berlin-based German Centre of Gerontology (DZA), retirees are neither ill more often nor have a higher mortality rate - as long as they retired between the ages of 60 and 65, the accepted norm.

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