Letter: Work experience

As LIFE expectancy increases and retirement benefits decline, more people will remain in some form of work and - in spite of public sector hysteria - it is not necessarily a bad thing.

Work gives people a purpose, and social connections. The rise in working seniors aged 75 and beyond began long before the recession and the US Bureau of Labour Statistics say 8 per cent are now employed in some capacity. A limiting factor has been the reluctance of employers to accept that the stereotype of the senior worker as slower, less flexible and less tech-savvy is out of date.

Older workers come from generations significantly more literate and numerate than today and some seniors, like me, have been working with computers for almost half a century.

DR JOHN CAMERON

Howard Place

St Andrews, Fife