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Pensioners who do not volunteer to help others when they retire are knocking years off their life expectancy, according to a former Cabinet Secretary.
Lord O’Donnell said that people in their mid-60s should volunteer to care for people much older or younger to prolong their lives and stay out of hospital.
Not volunteering was the equivalent of taking up a 15 cigarettes a day habit on the day they retire, he said.
The peer is the author of a 96-page review by the Legatum Institute which recommends the Government should consider the economic cost on people's happiness from its policies.
One of the key recommendations is for ministers to encourage pensioners to stay busy when they retire in order to remain healthy and stay out of hospital.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/e...their-life-expectancy-says-Lord-ODonnell.html
Lord O’Donnell said that people in their mid-60s should volunteer to care for people much older or younger to prolong their lives and stay out of hospital.
Not volunteering was the equivalent of taking up a 15 cigarettes a day habit on the day they retire, he said.
The peer is the author of a 96-page review by the Legatum Institute which recommends the Government should consider the economic cost on people's happiness from its policies.
One of the key recommendations is for ministers to encourage pensioners to stay busy when they retire in order to remain healthy and stay out of hospital.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/e...their-life-expectancy-says-Lord-ODonnell.html