As people live longer, they face the increased risk of outliving their brains or their money. Here's why.
was consumed, too. People used to typically reach 50 not having had regular exercise since high school, and with many years of cigarette and alcohol damage, they started dying off fairly early. Relative to today, fewer made it to 70.
Alzheimer's cases tend to start during a person's 70s. When most people died before 70, only a small and unfortunate minority got dementia. But now that people take better care of their bodies, such that increasing numbers manage to live until 90 or 100, dementia will claim larger and larger numbers.
That’s what I mean by outliving your brain. It seems that the average brain starts to deteriorate seriously as it plows through its seventy-something birthdays. After a while, it’s just mush—figuratively speaking. If you take good care of your body so it can live more than eight decades, you enter into the red zone in which your body has outlived your brain.retirement
is mainly financed by our savings . This was a big change that occurred around the time I got into academia; people older than myself are guaranteed to get sent money as long as they live—and many of my European colleagues, even younger ones, still have the promise of a lifelong pension. But the new plan is that you save for retirement and your employer also puts money into a fund for you—and that’s all. When you retire, you get whatever the savings add up to, and that’s it.
That’s what I mean by outliving your money. If you retire with a lump sum, your future lifestyle will depend on how much income that earns, plus whatever you spend out of the lump sum itself . Ideally you would live on the interest payments and never reduce the lump sum itself. If your lump sum gets too small, you have outlived your money.
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