--- title: Why You Should Delay Your Retirement description: Fighting Zika virus on Mother's Day, why not to retire, the opioid epidemic's shred of silver lining and more. canonical: https://time.com/4322693/retirement-delay-live-longer/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-09T16:01:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:01.265Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why You Should Delay Your Retirement og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4322693/retirement-delay-live-longer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why You Should Delay Your Retirement twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why You Should Delay Your Retirement by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 9, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 9, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Want to live longer? Don’t retire.**](http://www.wsj.com/articles/retiring-after-65-may-help-people-live-longer-1462202016) By Ann Lukits in the Wall Street Journal **2\.** [**If we really want to show moms some love, we should step up the fight against Zika virus.**](http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/07/zika-mothers-day-2017-column/83986038/) By Ashish Jha in USA Today **3\.** [**A surprising side effect of the opioid epidemic: rising organ donation.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/09/one-out-of-every-11-organ-donors-last-year-died-of-a-drug-overdose/) By Elahe Izadi in the Washington Post **4\.** [**Solar power is contagious.**](http://www.vox.com/2016/5/4/11590396/solar-power-contagious-maps) By Brad Plumer in Vox **5\.** [**Have hedge funds lost their Midas touch?**](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hedgefunds-outlook-idUSKCN0Y00CX) By David Randall, Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Lawrence Delevingne at Reuters  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4322693/retirement-delay-live-longer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4322693/retirement-delay-live-longer/"},"headline":"Why You Should Delay Your Retirement","datePublished":"2016-05-09T16:01:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:01.265Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4322693/retirement-delay-live-longer/","keywords":["Innovation","Retirement","opioids","Solar Power","hedge funds","Zika"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4322693/retirement-delay-live-longer/","name":"Why You Should Delay Your Retirement"}}]}] ```