70% of non-retired Americans plan to work as long as possible during retirement, according to a new Bankrate.com report. Only 25% say they have no plans to work during retirement. Of those who plan to work as long as possible during retirement, 38% are planning to work because they like to work and 35% said they plan to work because they need the money. 27% said both. Early retirement is no longer the goal it once was: just 13% [...]

Ron Levitt could have retired 16 years ago when he sold his bustling optometry practice in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Instead, he kept his white coat on, found two part-time gigs seeing patients and continued working. Today Levitt, 74, spends all of the money he earns on vacations with his wife and golf-club memberships. Aside from the extra cash, Levitt says, it also keeps boredom at bay. A rising share of Americans is holding jobs into their golden years, bucking [...]

People don’t have a use-by date — 65 isn’t a magic age after which workers merely plod along, doing routine work, bereft of creativity and new ideas. In 2014, Los Angeles’ own Frank Gehry, now 87, opened two museums, one in Panama City and one in Paris. In 2015, a Gehry building opened in Sydney, Australia. Among other projects, he’s now embarked on an ambitious plan related to redeveloping the L.A. River. At the same age, evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson has launched a new [...]

Critics of the nation’s retirement system regularly complain that the system is in crisis. Too many private companies fail to offer their employees a retirement plan. Many employees who are covered by a plan fail to make contributions to it. Those who do make contributions may contribute too little or invest their savings unwisely. The end result: Many of us will reach retirement age with miniscule pensions or too little savings to enjoy a comfortable old age. […]

Democrats in Congress often lament the fact that full-time working women in the United States earn 78 cents for every dollar men earn, but less attention is paid to the much wider and harder-hitting income gap for women in retirement. According to a report Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) released Thursday, the average total income of women over age 65 is just 55 percent of older men’s income, and those women are nearly twice as likely as men to live [...]