A Longer Life, Revisited

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The LEF News reprints a Canadian article on our increasing life expectancy. This is one of a number of similar articles that have appeared in the press in recent weeks, and it makes some good, sensible points. On health: "Longer life doesn't mean a prolonged dotage." On retirement: "People don't become instantly useless a day after their 65th birthday, he argued. Many remain productive well into old age."

Link: http://www.lef.org/news/aging/2003/04/02/eng-canadianp_national/eng-canadianp_national_173908_1016307841206080642.html