Pension planning: how long have I got left?
Ignore the longevity calculators, you’ll almost certainly prove them wrong anyway
TV DOCUMENTARIES about long-lived people are popular with older viewers. We hope tips revealed by Okinawan or Sardinian seniors might help us live longer ourselves (purple sweet potatoes, anyone?).
But there is a bitter irony to Secrets of the Superagers, currently airing on Channel 4 in the UK. The series, recorded in 2023, has outlasted its presenter, Dr Michael Mosley. Sadly, this agreeable advocate of healthy living died last year at the age of 67.
He has entered that strange Valhalla of people “called before their time”, as my granny would have put it. These outliers can distort our perceptions of how long our own lifespans might be. This may, in turn, complicate our pension planning.
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