[Yetanfou]

> what will the retirees (~60+ y/o) do with their time?

They'll work: "The health trend means people will live routinely to 100 in the coming decades, and as long as 150 years, scientists say. That suggests a much longer working life, possibly involving serial careers, and lasting well into our 70s, 80s, and even 100, say researchers with Pearson and Oxford University."

[oldmancoyote]

I'm 72. It gets harder every year to be productive, both intellectually and physically harder. We all may live longer, but that does NOT mean we will be able to work much longer.

[WalterSear]

Yes it does. This isn't the stopgap healthcare you are accustomed to. We won't live longer if we aren't healthy.

[imesh]

Interesting conclusion since people aren't healthier longer, they just exist longer. People still go senile and have the same health complications they used to, we just now keep them alive through the aid of medicine. It's even a worse situation with the amount of obesity related issues the current generation is facing.

[toomuchtodo]

With that in mind, it seems wise to reallocate resources towards R&D towards efforts to help humans live healthy, productive lives as long as possible, versus keeping us alive in decrepit misery.

http://www.sens.org/

[oldmancoyote]

You assert medicine is keeping folks alive longer as they deteriorate at the same rate. I believe people are living longer because medicine and healthy living keep fewer people from dying at an early age while slowing the rate of deterioration. Without clearer answers about capabilities and quality of live as one ages, it's impossible to say much that is meaningful