The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity (2017) by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott talks about why we need to make changes after our life gets longer and longer every year. The old 3-stage life: growing-up (0-20), working(20-60) and retirement (60-) will not work for people who live longer that can reach to 100 years. Therefore, we will have actively planning our life including:
A life well lived requires careful planning in order to balance the financial and the non-financial, the economic and the psychological, the rational and the emotional. |
Basically in every decade since 1840, life expectancy has increased by two to three years. So if a child born in 2007 has a 50 per cent probability of living to 104, then a child born a decade earlier (1997) has a 50% chance of reaching 101 or 102; a decade earlier (1987) the range is 98 to 100; a decade earlier (1977) 95 to 98; for 1967 it is to 92 to 96; and a decade earlier still (1957) the range is 89 to 94, and so on.