Coronavirus is forcing me into practice retirement – and it isn’t all bad

Keeping busy and in contact with friends stops your world from shrinking, and then there are the unexpected pleasures of being at home, writes Janet Street-Porter

Streets have been left virtually deserted as people have to busy themselves at home (PA)

Enforced house arrest is teaching me a new skill – how to stop work.

Boomers like me thrive on being busy and a huge number of us are militant retirement refuseniks, but thanks to the coronavirus outbreak now we are being forced to experience PR – practice retirement. Will it change our minds permanently about the benefits of work in later life?

We are the generation who wanted to rebrand ageing, and we associate the R-word – retirement – with shutting down, shrinking, giving up. But is that true? And when this pandemic ends, how many of us (of all ages) will decide not to go back to an office again, having discovered the joy of working from home?