A total of 13 people had retired early or were not working because of ill health.
It is not clear whether this is consequent on the experience of chronic physical ill health.
In addition to acute drug-related affects, older drug users experience high morbidity and mortality from chronic conditions and reportedly greater levels of psychological ill health.
The burden of ill health resulting from social inequality is again seen to fall on the poor alone.
Factors preceding the onset of meningococcal disease, with special emphasis on passive smoking, stressful events, physical fitness, symptoms of ill health.
The two non-responses arose through the ill health of one client and the death of another.
Unlike those who retire on the grounds of ill health, those who take early retirement are relatively optimistic about retirement.
The self-esteem enhancing quality of pension sharing was particularly obvious where respondents were unable to reciprocate otherwise, mainly because of ill health.
