The Oldie

Not the retiring type

The cost of living is rising, heating bills soaring, and more and more older people are going back to work.

It's been called Britain's ‘great unretirement’. From April to June 2022, 173,000 over-65s returned to work, as inflation took a toll on their pensions.

No wonder, I'm thinking, as someone who's just retired after 30 happy years in teaching. Yet financial pressures are just the start of it. What no one ever tells you about are all the other

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