my parents both worked past 70 and had to be kicked out. What else is there to do, really? Golf? boring
It is one thing if you want to work into your retirement years, my Grandfather worked until he was 85, it is all together different if you are being forced to work because you can’t draw a pension, social security or medicare. It must be a choice of the individual. Retirement means a lot of different things to everyone and is not necessarily a slower life than a working life. Bottom line, it is all about the freedom to choose.
what kind of work did your parents do?.....working primary care nurse in a extremely busy acute care hospital is not a job most 40 yrs old could handle let alone a 65 yro.