Retirement - a false goal? | Carol Black | TEDxNewnham

‘Rest’. ‘Seclusion’. ‘Removal from Action or Danger’: this is what 'retirement' means. But in the UK in the twenty-first century we might live for 30 or 40 years beyond retirement. Are we, Professor Dame Carol Black asks, doomed to spend all that time in bed- or could it be the start of a new chapter? Professor Dame Carol Black is the Principal of Newnham College. She is a past-President of the Royal College of Physicians, of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, and of the British Lung Foundation, and has chaired the UK Health Honours Committee. She has long been involved in encouraging women to aspire to positions of leadership, in the professions, academia and public life.

She is now a member of the University’s Equality and Diversity Committee, and of the organising committee for the annual Women of the World Festival in Cambridge. She chairs the board of Think Ahead, a not-for-profit organisation that encourages graduates into mental health social work. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx