People patterns: Living longer means working a little longer

More than 9,800 men and women in their 50s and 2,800 of their spouses have taken part in a continuing Health and Retirement Study conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research on behalf of the National Institute on Aging. One set of questions asked workers just how long they believed they would continue working. Of those who had given the matter some thought, 16% of the men and 18% of the women anticipated retiring fully before age 62; 52% of women and 48% of men assumed they would quit work by 65.