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World Service,26 Dec 2012,18 mins

Retirement and work

Business Daily

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Should older people work longer - and how far should governments remove barriers to that? Lesley Curwen talks to Anne Sonnet from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development about which countries are best and worst at employing older workers. Retirement coach Laurie Lawson explains that taking the leap into retirement should bring a new lease of life. And the veteran journalist James Srodes points out the pitfalls of new relationships when the partners in question are in their 60s or 70s.

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