Reaching 退職 age? It'll make you feel healthier! Over-65s say they feel １０年間s younger and as happy with their health as they did when they were in their 30s

  • Over-65s are almost as 満足させるd with health as they were in their late 30s
  • Sense of wellbeing on 'downward 傾向' from teens until late middle age
  • But then receives bounce in their 60s, Office for 国家の 統計（学） finds

By Chris Brooke for the Daily Mail

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It is, 論理（学）上, the 行う／開催する／段階 of life at which we 推定する／予想する our health will 悪化する the most - and with no turning 支援する.

But in reality, the over-65s say they feel １０年間s younger and are also enjoying a new 賃貸し（する） of life.

公式の／役人 研究 手段ing the nation’s ‘happiness’ 設立する those who have reached 退職 age are happier about their own health than they have been for years.

All smiles: Official research measuring the nation's 'happiness' found those who have reached retirement age are happier about their own health than they have been for years

All smiles: 公式の／役人 研究 手段ing the nation's 'happiness' 設立する those who have reached 退職 age are happier about their own health than they have been for years

It may be the feeling of freedom that comes with no longer having to work, but the over-65s are almost as 満足させるd with their health as they were in their late 30s, によれば the 人物／姿／数字s.

The Office for 国家の 統計（学） 設立する people’s sense of health and wellbeing are 一般に on a ‘downward 傾向’ from their teens until late middle age, before receiving a welcome bounce in their 60s.

And it appeared that even the 70s are a far happier time than the 哀れな slog of the 40s and 50s.

As part of a wider 熟考する／考慮する of 40,000 世帯s in 2010 to 2011, people were asked to 率 how 満足させるd they were with their 全体にわたる health. They were also asked if any 条件s 限界 their everyday activities.

Happy days: Pensions expert Dr Ros Altmann said there will be a 'strand where people would have expected they wouldn't have good health in their 60s and are pleasantly surprised to find they do'

Happy days: 年金s 専門家 Dr Ros Altmann said there will be a '立ち往生させる where people would have 推定する／予想するd they wouldn't have good health in their 60s and are pleasantly surprised to find they do'

全体にわたる, two-thirds said they were 満足させるd with their health. Unsurprisingly, those 老年の 16 to 24 gave their health a high 75 per cent 率ing. This dropped to 70 per cent for those in their late 20s and 早期に 30s.

'The social narrative is you reach 退職 and you are decrepit or infirm or you are going to get ill, but now most people find that isn’t the 事例／患者'

Dr Ros Altmann, 年金s 専門家

By the late 30s it 落ちるs to 69 per cent and continues through middle age to just over 60 per cent by the age of 59.

Then comes a sudden 改良 as life seems to become a lot rosier. The satisfaction 率ing 増加するs to 67 per cent の中で people 老年の from 65 to 70.

年金s 専門家 Dr Ros Altmann said: ‘The social narrative is you reach 退職 and you are decrepit or infirm or you are going to get ill, but now most people find that isn’t the 事例／患者.

‘ーに関して／ーの点でs of health, there will be a 立ち往生させる where people would have 推定する／予想するd they wouldn’t have good health in their 60s and are pleasantly surprised to find they do.’

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