In Canada, until 2008, “retirement” came at age 65. We don’t mean that 65 was the default, or age at which it was assumed a person would retire – we literally mean that once you hit 65, you could legally be forced to give up working.
Nearly a decade and a half later, and the proportion of people in the Great White North working past 65 is at least one in four. South of the border, the proportion is even higher: almost half of Americans aged between 60 and 75 plan to work part-time after retirement, and nearly a third say they will retire either past the age of 70 or not at all.