Carmel’s restrained over view of her attendance at a recent Aussie Retirement seminar, also contains comment on longevity. The longevity issue is a topic with many fishhooks, not the least being the new trend of older people continuing to work, which challenges the long established measure of old age dependency ratio, the ratio of old age people to those of working age. Today’s senior are changing the size of the workforce and productivity growth, saving patterns too, and this will initiative changes in traditional ways of measuring dependency.

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