Pilot Study Questions Wisdom of Mandatory Retirement

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Taylor's goal, she said, is to replace strict age-based retirement cutoffs in favor of competency-based criteria.

"Wouldn't it be great if we could come up with a 'functional age'? Instead of saying, 'you're 60, you can't fly,' to use different neurological assessments and training programs to assess them. That's what we all really want," she said.

Such methods could be used across a variety of professions, she noted, from bus drivers to surgeons. Taylor's team is now enrolling a new study to check the reproducibility of these findings over the longer term.

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