Professor Rose Anne Kenny

I can't wait to retire.

Yes.

So you're saying you don't have to do that when you're 70, but do some other kind of work, maybe.

Well, certainly from a societal perspective and a workplace perspective, I think we need to start thinking at a societal level.

Should there be compulsory retirement?

Should people have a choice?

And should we be modifying the work environment to hostility?

harness the fantastic institutional memory and learnings of people who have spent 40 years doing something but but but you know in in in a way that their job was is is more is enjoyable at every stage of life um and then if you are retired or retiring you have to find something

You'll know yourself that, you know, getting up in the morning, I don't feel I have anything to do.

I hate that.

Well, then you have to make something to do.

Purpose is very, very important.

Purpose is one of the keys here.

Absolutely.

Can we come back to the exercise?

Because again, when you get to, you know, 50, 55, 60, you've got a few aches and pains and you want us to swing out of things and lift heavy weights and run, I assume, or walk very fast.

It can be a big ask sometimes, can't it?

How do we convince people that it's the right thing to do to up the exercise?

So the first thing I would say is get it into one's head that after the age of 50, every year, year on year, you do a little bit more, not less.

That's the first thing.