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A colleague from the financial world recently announced on Facebook that he had retired to the woodsy north-east of the US and that he was looking forward to spending his days fishing and hiking in a sylvan landscape far from Wall Street. 一位金融圈的同仁最近在Facebook上宣布，他已退休，搬到了林木茂盛的美国东北部，期待着能在远离华尔街的森林风光中垂钓、徒步，消磨时光。 I, of course, wished him well, but I had to wonder what the medical record shows for people who have unplugged from their busy careers and left behind a mentally stimulating life. 当然，我希望他一切安好，但我想知道对那些突然离开繁忙的职业生涯并将那段激情燃烧岁月抛在身后的人来说，他们的医疗记录如何。 This is not an idle question: as the baby boomer generation ages, the number of people of retirement age in the US is projected to double from 36m in 2003 to 72m in 2030. Governments everywhere are debating whether and how far to raise the age of eligibility for state pensions because of the effect on the public purse. 这并不是一个毫无意义的问题：随着婴儿潮一代逐渐变老，美国退休年龄人口数量预计将从2003年的3600万翻倍至2030年的7200万。由于担心对公共财政的影响，世界各国政府都在讨论是否提高领取国家养老金资格的最低年龄，以及提高到多大年龄。 | 
