So I click on a Yahoo article about Best Cities to Retire in, and -- WTF?

[JDPriestly]

7. It is possible that once the Baby Boomers have retired and the younger generations that are

comparatively smaller are fully in the workforce, there will be enough work to keep people employed until they are 70.

Unless there are major medical discoveries that deal with things that slow us down as we age -- memory impairment, arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, hip & knee surgeries -- and on and on, it is unlikely that employers will want very many older people on their staffs.

Retirement is not a matter of just stopping to have a good time. People are retired out of their work because they either are not needed or wanted or because they no longer have the physical or mental capacity to keep up the pace that employers demand.

We do remain healthy a little longer than in the past -- but the slowing of the aging process will itself slow and end eventually.

Think about Chris Hedges and Christopher Hitchens -- two men one younger than 70 the other just a little over 70 and yet both died recently.

Working at 75 is possible for some but pushing it for many.