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The Retirement Newsletter: How is your health?
Welcome
Welcome to issue -122.
So far, I have been looking at the health of our pension pots and how much money we may need to retire. However, having a nice big, healthy pension pot is no good if your general health is poor, and you don’t have the time (or the energy) to spend your pension and enjoy your retirement.
So, this week, I will be looking at a health check-up, and also taking a trip down memory lane.
Health
I am not a medical doctor (although I do hold a PhD in biochemistry), and what follows should not be taken as medical advice.
As a result of a few body aches and a head cold that I can’t seem to shake, I have been thinking about my health over the last few weeks.
In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) runs health checks for people aged 40 to 74 (I have no idea why it stops at 74?) every five years, and this got me thinking — am I due a health check, and if I am, what should be checked?
