{"id":151,"date":"2009-08-03T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.deserthillspc.org\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-08-03T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:00:02","slug":"the-future-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/the-future-of-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thought-provoking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/21\/AR2009072102348.html\">discussion of retirement<\/a> that I came across had some amazing statistics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Studies show that retirement is no good for you. Even if you hate the job you go to every day, sudden abrupt inactivity is a bad idea. A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled &#8220;The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes&#8221; studied people in complete retirement over six years. It found that retirement led to a 5 to 6 percent increase in illness, a 6 to 9 percent decline in mental health, and a 5 to 16 percent increase in mobility difficulties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It made me think of this video from <a href=\"http:\/\/mosaic.org\/\">Mosaic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GbXne7FJeAU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GbXne7FJeAU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re curious, I was directed to the <em>WaPo<\/em> item quoted above from a different type of <a href=\"http:\/\/correspondents.theatlantic.com\/edward_tenner\/2009\/07\/the_future_of_statutory_senility.php\">discussion in the Atlantic<\/a>; the point there was the strain put on society when retirement ages are falling even as lifespans are increasing and birthrates falling.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought-provoking discussion of retirement that I came across had some amazing statistics: Studies show that retirement is no good for you. Even if you hate the job you go to every day, sudden abrupt inactivity is a bad idea. A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled &#8220;The Effects of Retirement &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/the-future-of-retirement\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15,54,62],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","tag-church","tag-society","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}