Letter: Let old people pay their way

Saturday 26 July 1997 23:02 BST

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As one who will be part of the "ageing population" whose financial support is going to cause so much hardship to future graduates ("They'll pay for it", 20 July), I wonder what imaginative thought is being applied to ways of allowing people to work well beyond 65.

Technology and science should enable the active-minded to work to unprecedented ages. Medical science is doing wonders to prolong useful life. It may become commonplace to live to 120, and if that is the case I have no intention of retiring much before 95.

Ian Flintoff

London SW6

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