Posts Tagged ‘work’
Does Hard Work Help Preserve the Brain?
Physical activity is known to help prevent dementia and disease, but it’s possible that the kind you do makes a difference. A new study found that hard physical work not only doesn’t lower the risk of dementia, it increases the risk of developing the disease. Researchers found that people who do hard physical work have…
Read MoreSeniors Twice As Likely To Work Now vs. 1985
Rising health care costs combined with a lack of sufficient retirement savings and benefit payments has caused a higher rate of seniors to forego their retirements and continue working, making the idea of leaving work behind more stressful than sought after. This is according to a study conducted and released by money management firm United…
Read MoreWhy millions of Americans are still working past the age of 65
Retiring comfortably at 65 is now out of reach for millions of Americans. Tom Coomer was a machinist at the aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas for 29 years, but the plant closed one year before he was due to get his full pension. Now 80 years old, he works as a greeter five days a week…
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