A aposentadoria é uma conquista almejada pelo trabalhador ao final de sua trajetória profissional. A seguir, leia reportagem sobre um alerta relacionado a essa fase da vida.

 

Can retirement kill you?

 

In 2003, Dr Harry Prosen stepped down as head of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, but the then 71-year-old had no plans to retire. Rather, the doctor intended to focus on other “jobs” that would keep him busy.

 

It’s not just a love of working that has kept Prosen, now at 83, toiling away 30 hours a week as an octogenarian. He also sees keeping busy as a matter of life or death.

 

Prosen said he is certain that if he stopped working entirely, he would literally die not long after. In fact, a number of studies show that retirement is bad for your health.

 

A 2013 report, for instance, found that retirement increased the chances of suffering from depression by 40%, while it increased the probability of having at least one physical ailment by about 60%.

 

Texto adaptado. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 08 set. 2014.

 

It is possbible to infer that the main objective of the text is to:

• describe how Dr Harry Prosen has been living after he stopped working.

• alert its readers for the diseases that appear on the first year of retirement.

• show the negative points retirement causes to the economy of a country.

• demonstrate the impact of retirement on both physical and mental health.

• discuss the cases of retirees who were sent to hospital due to depression.