“THE SUGGESTION THAT THEY ARE OLD OR LIKELY TO BECOME OLD IS TREATED WITH SCORN."

But they are old!! Why does your baby boomer column give them advice on where to find good plastic surgeons if not to disguise their aging faces and bodies?

A lot of women in their forties found out that the inner clock knows exactly what age it is, when they tried desperately to become pregnant. They went to expensive Doctors and said I’ll pay you what ever it costs to help me become pregnant with my own child (not someone else’s eggs). They said I might be in my forties but I workout and take care of myself and I only look thirty, I ONLY FEEL THIRTY. The doctor said sorry, but your biological clock is in its forties and there is nothing I can do.

Only 3% of women can become pregnant in their forties.

However this article does contain some good points about adjustments having to be made in relationships in retirement. I think that those adjustments are not solely to do with retirement, although that brings them more into focus, they are adjustments that have to be made anyway as we age and our bodies and outlook change.

I’m all for doing what we can to look as good as we can as we age and for living life doing whatever we enjoy, but this article is promoting that we might enjoy working part-time until we are seventy. WELL A LOT OF US WOULDN'T ENJOY DOING THAT. We want to be free to live the last years of our lives without schedules and being free to plan each day as we want.
Sure age discrimation underestimates immensely the wisdom,intelligence and sheer determination that old people have after having weathered many of lifes storms but this article is going to the other extreme perferring to beleive that everyone will make it to eighty or ninety and never grow old or sick or too frail to be working at seventy.

It is often difficult when you are over 45 to find employers who are 'age-friendly', and many people now simply don't want to retire for various reasons, not just financial.

There is a website called: www.olderworkers.com.au that is for over 45's and employers know when they lodge the jobs that those applying will be mature age or 'older'.

Employers are going to have to start to understand that it is an ageing population and therefore it is an ageing workforce.

If you want to work till ya drop dead good luck to ya. Some of us don't owe a cracker, and are pleased to be out of it. Life was not meant to be complicated, i think what i am reading here is a justification of overspending, and not just working because you like it. Who wants their life ruled for them for 45to 60 hrs / wk. no thanks.