For years, he financed trips to Nashville with funds that would have gone towards retirement, he said.

On September 16, 2009 Boone stated that he was leaning towards retirement.

A trend towards early retirement has been evident since the early 1970s.

Attitudes towards employment, retirement, and early retirement are not formed in a vacuum.

The Bootle-born defender is giving no thoughts towards retirement, however.

Yet despite the trend towards early retirement, there is only very limited pre-retirement education available.

Whether you're buying your first home or heading towards retirement there are important changes happening this year.

North America has an ageing population and many people in senior positions are heading towards retirement.

For older workers this means that trends towards early retirement are unlikely to be reversed despite shortages in some industrial sectors.

The second is modernising the employment rules in order to move towards gradual and flexible retirement.