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Thu 04 Apr 2011Living life in full: retired people urged to get active
RETIRED PEOPLE should not reduce themselves to “sitting on the subs’ bench”, and should challenge the view that older people had to become “observers of other people’s lives”, a conference in Killarney was told yesterday.
Retired and older men, especially, were at risk of becoming isolated and inactive, unless offered practical hands-on activities, over 400 representatives at Active Retirement Ireland’s annual meeting heard.
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