What to do about our ageing population? Give ’em all a job

Never mind millennials. The real economic debate needs to focus on the role of over-50s in the workplace

Retirement is a dirty word for Barbara French, who at 75 still gets up before 6am on weekdays to clean the Co-op's Plymouth groceries depot where she has worked for almost 40 years. "I enjoy coming to work," she says. "It gives me a purpose. I think it's wonderful if companies give us golden oldies work for as long as we want."

Much has changed in her four decades at the Co-op, not least the arrival of exotic fruits and avocados as some of Britain's favourite foods. One certain change in the decades to come, is that more people will, like Barbara, be working for longer.

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