Canadian doctors live as long, and die from the same causes, as the rest of their fellow
citizens. 1 Life expectancy at the higher ages has not increased significantlyin the last …

A great many Canadians will retire this year, most with reluctance, some with dread. And we
will encourage these attitudes. Until re-tirement, most people's lives are defined by …

R ETIREMENT-what is it? A good definition would seem to be a cessation of one's vocation,
either forced or voluntary. The latter usually occurs when one is no longer interested in one's …

W1Jalkerville, Ont. TJHE proportion of our older people, 65 years of age and over, has risen
from 4%, of the population in 1900 to 10% o in 1950. Science and Medicine have …

Readers will notice that a substantial part of this issue of CMAJ is devoted to the problems of
physicians' retirement. It is, we think, an important subject. Physicians probably have more …

Contributions from our readers to Personal View on the political and social aspects of
medicine are most welcome. as their sole source of income. I am sure that all retired …

The problem posed by the increase in the number of persons surviving beyond the age of 60-
65, often referred to as the problem of ageing population, has been receiving increasing …

How are we approaching that inevitable time when age will have caught up and a change of
pace and activity is either forced upon us or chosen as a challenging new ad-venture in …

Driven to retire mainly by changes in the health care delivery system, physicians
nevertheless find it difficult to reduce their professional activities as they grow older. Retired …

Dissociation from medical practice, with its implications of retirement and leisure for the
physician, presents a problem that has been discussed too infrequently in our medical …