Add to this the raising of Social Security normal retirement from 65 to 67, and the likelyhood of further increases. Moreover, a long established trend toward early retirement has reached an abrupt halt according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute. Additionally, the primary driver of perceived age discrimination is age? These findings suggest that perceived age discrimination is a useful indicator of population-level exposure to work-related age discrimination among women. It is high time that these old practices end. People are living longer and are healthier for longer.