Age at retirement and long term survival of an industrial population: prospective cohort study

Abstract

Objective To assess whether early retirement is associated with better survival.

Does Retirement Kill You? Evidence from Early Retirement Windows

“…More 3 recent papers acknowledge this, but have problems directly dealing with it. Tsai et al (2005) measure the post-65 retirement mortality rates for individuals, regardless of the age of retirement.…”

Healthy and unhealthy migrant effect on the mortality of immigrants from wealthy countries residing in Spain

“…However, in British immigrants and those from other OECD countries these mortality rate ratios were, respectively, 1.14 (1.04 to Several studies have shown that early retirement is associated with increased mortality. [20][21][22] Some authors have noted that mortality from cardiovascular disease associated with early retirement may also be attributed to changes after retirement -reduced income, abandoning healthy habits, or psychological consequences -that increase the risk of developing these diseases. 23 We found that immigrants residing in the preferred destination area had a higher proportion of retired people than immigrants residing in the rest of Spain.…”

“…[20][21][22][24][25] Both cardiovascular disease and the rest of diseasesdigestive, respiratory, metabolic, renal -that constitute the leading causes of death are chronic diseases that generally have a prolonged natural history before retirement. Thus, the higher mortality from these causes of death in the preferred destination area suggests poor health before retirement and, consequently, a possible unhealthy immigrant bias in mortality in this area.…”

The Social Gradient in Health: How Fair Retirement could make a Difference

“…Unfortunately, there are relatively few studies on the topic of retirement and health, and the findings have been mixed: some studies show retirement to be beneficial for health (Gall et al, 1997;Drentea, 2002;Mein et al, 2003;Mojon-Azzi et al, 2007), some that retirement has no effect on health (Ekerdt et al, 1983;Butterworth et al, 2006;Villamil et al, 2006;van Solinge, 2007), and some that health deteriorates after retirement (Bossé et al, 1987;Morris et al, 1994;Buxton et al, 2005;Tsai et al, 2005;Bamia et al, 2007;Alavinia and Burdorf, 2008;).…”