Never Retire - Health and Well-Being Research on Working in Relative Old Age, Part 3

What the data say - paid subscriber post #12

I had a number of options for how to put this installment together.

After reviewing a considerable amount of research on working in retirement, I decided to summarize everything I read based on the results of a selection of the most interesting studies.

For space purposes and because I value your time, I didn’t include most of the research I read. Instead, I did my best to include articles that are somehow unique or distill common findings, often using a unique angle or method.

Also, note that, for most of the articles I use, I link to abstracts. To view entire articles, you’ll need to pay (it’s not cheap) or get access through a university account. Thankfully, I have access to the latter. In most cases, the abstract and the occasional free article are all you need.

As with anything else in personal finance, it’s personal. So it’s a good thing the results in this area are mixed.

No matter what the research says, you have your own reality and attendant necessary courses of action. It’s just nice to have an idea of how things turn out for groups of people on the basis of their realities and the choices they make in the face of these realities.

Bottom line—the research sheds considerable light on not only the impact of working in retirement on health, but why you might find yourself in this situation to begin with. So we start briefly with the latter.

You can access part one and two of this working in retirement series here and here if you’re a paid subscriber.

Now part three—