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I mean it’s not that interesting to write about the 100 year olds who have no purpose and just putter around. Might be skewing your conclusions a bit.

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Someone mentioned a paper a while ago examining whether retirement was actually what caused death, rather than retirement being caused by ill health. Perhaps someone here can link it.

This study [1] seems to suggest that there are quite a few negative effects that can be associated with retirement itself rather than age alone. But the effects are rather small and it also seems like they can be offset by maintaining a social life and physical exercise after retirement. So yeah, being alone on the couch all day is bad for physical and mental health. But that holds for any age, retirement only exacerbates it for some people.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/27751397

Maybe "The Mortality Effects of Retirement" ? https://www.nber.org/bah/2018no1/mortality-effects-retiremen...

There are a couple other versions of this full paper

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24127/w241...

https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/wp_2016-7.pdf

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