Retirement, and ageing in general, is only a problem if we make it so. Any retirement age lower than 70 is a bane to society. Medical science is only getting better and better and everyone is slowly expected to live up to the age of 85. Furthermore while people are expected to do less as they age, I firmly don't believe that once they reach the age of 60 they are, not only expected to, but obliged to do nothing. Yet it is just funny how governments are reacting to this problem. Some refuse to lower the retirement age; they are naive. Others think that the problem is solved by encouraging more birth rates; they are retarded. And yet hardly anyone analysed the idea that people of old age actually can still contribute towards society in one manner or the other.