Contemporary Retirement
Retirement is changing. The type of retirement that their parents enjoyed is no longer enough for the baby boomer generation. Today’s retirees are younger, richer, fitter, healthier and better educated than previous generations of retirees. They also have much higher expectations. The aim of this blog is to help you get the vital, healthy, prosperous, productive and fulfilling retirement that you really want (and deserve).Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Keep on driving to avoid long-term care
Researchers at the U.S.-based John Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered that older people who continue to drive are less likely to enter nursing homes or assisted living centres than those who have given up driving or who have never driven.
Obviously, however, the team of researchers are not advocating that a person continue to drive if they are a danger to themselves or other road users. Ellen Freeman, Ph.D, an epidemiological researcher at the John Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, stated that:
"This probably isn't so much about the process of driving but rather the larger issue of mobility as it relates to a person's independence. When someone becomes a shut-in due to the loss of their primary transportation, the likelihood that they will require living assistance categorically increases."
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