Why retire at any age?
Dr KK Aggarwal
President CMAAO and HCFI
It has been a practice in India to retire people after the
age of 58. In some cases, the age has been 60, 62, 65 or 70. Let us understand
the science behind this retirement.
Retirement is based on the fact that after the age of 50 one
starts developing age related minimal cognitive impairment. One start losing
memory for immediate recall, recent memory, starts losing the names of common
people and common places.
Quite often when one
is speaking on a phone and his attention is diverted by someone, the person
forgets what he was speaking.
In this age most people start entering the name of a person
in the phone book by linking it to his profession, relation, JOB ETC.
Most politicians will start relying on the PPT presentations
or start reading their speech.
Very few will continue oral extempore presentations. The
situation is worse with vegetarians due to Vitamin B 1w2 deficiency which
further impairs memory.
Premature atherosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, recurrent
mini strokes also add to this insult.
Therefore, the age of retirement should not be decided by
chronological age but by the degree of age related cognitive impairment
present.
All patients with age related cognitive dysfunction should
be evaluated and treated for reversible causes of cognitive impairment,
including medication side effects, sleep disturbances, depression, vitamin B12
deficiency, and hypothyroidism.
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