Nowadays people live longer after they retire. How does this affect individuals and society? What can be done about this?

Individuals have currently been living more in the

last

years, especially after

retirement

.

This

rise in life expectation

also

brings some effects to societies. In

this

essay, I will examine these effects and

then

present some solutions for them.

Firstly

, people who live more as a consequence, cause a direct impact in a country public

health

. It is common that the elderly encounter themselves vulnerable as soon as they retire, which means that they will depend exclusively on the

health

public

system

considering that the earnings coming from their

retirement

avoid them to afford a private

health

system

;

thus

, the more they live the more they will use the public

health

system

; thereby, causing a collapse into the

system

.

Secondly

, their

retirement

will require an increase in the tax burden to the payers. As the elderly are living more, the

state

will have to cope with the increasing number of retired by raising the taxes to support it. A perfect way to reduce the impact of

this

new reality is the leverage the age of

retirement

. With the increasing of life expectation, people are

also

expected to work more so as to contribute to the

state

in order to sustain the

system

.

Therefore

, people would get retire later and

also

improve the life pension for those who are not available to contribute to their workforce anymore.

For example

,

although

it is required that a person retire when he reaches 60 years old, the

state

should increase

this

number to 70;

thus

, those who already have 80 years old could be supported for those who still able to work. To conclude, the

retirement

age has become one of the most important issues that any

state

have do deal with;

however

, by imposing the leverage of the age of

retirement

, which is an unpopular measure, should be enough to solve

this

problem.