Here's the story

of an aging workforce

that can't afford to leave their jobs at all.

Most have hair of grey;

Some have sickness,

Many slip and fall.

In their May 2014 briefing titled Managing Workers' Compensation Exposures as the Workforce Ages, the Risk Management Research group at Marsh & McLennan tells a sobering tale of "older" workers (most often the 45-65 demographic, although some consider the aging process to begin at 35 or earlier) who have been driven by the Great Recession to either remain working beyond the formerly typical retirement age of 65, or who have gone back to work after retiring. These aging workers--the median age of the civilian workforce in 1992 was 37.1 whereas people older than 55 will soon represent more than one quarter of all U.S. workers--must remain employed to maintain a livelihood; they aren't just keeping their jobs for a little part time something to do between Florida vacations...read more.