Can You Offer Guidance to Reluctant Retirees?

Freakonomics Radio host Matt Welch says he too has contemplated retirement. A Rand Corporation study found that fewer than 40% of American workers follow what's called the standard pattern of retiring directly and completely from a full time job. 26% remain in full or part time jobs past the age of 70, according to the study. Stephen Colbert: Does cognitive decline feed our appetite to retire? If there is a relationship between declining mentally and retiring you don't know which is the horse and which is the cart.