A retired professor finds the ‘golden years’ may come with health issues. Plus, your pension funds may be underperforming

A retired professor finds the ‘golden years’ may come with health issues. Plus, your pension funds may be underperforming

Christine Overall retired from Queen's University in 2016 and is caring for her husband, who lives in a nearby long-term care facility.

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“I retired at the end of 2016 at age 66 after a career in academia,” says Christine Overall, 76, from Ottawa in the latest Tales from the Golden Age . “I was a professor of philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston. Teaching and dealing with the academic bureaucracy were becoming stressful, and I wanted to spend more time with my children and grandchildren.”

Some people say academics never retire, and that was true of Ms. Overall. “Philosophy is one of the g