I would love to have kept working. When I contracted cancer and had year-long treatment, I was told by my employer that I wasn't eligible for long term disability because I had just turned 65. There is a clause in the BC Human Rights code that supports this. Since my only other option was 15 weeks of EI and then leave without pay, I had no choice but to retire from a job I loved. So much for "Baby Boomers - Keep Working"!
It's about time that benefits support for older workers caught up with the fact that there's no longer a mandatory retirement age.