There is no need for any retired people who want something to do to sit around vegetating. There are plenty of voluntary community organizations people can join and play a valuable part in community life.
Many retired people do just this and provide very worthwhile benefits to their local community at little or no cost to the government or others.
This notion being put forward by some here that retirees become a useless burden on eveyone else following retirement is false. For various reasons such as poor health some retirees/pensioners do stop contributing to society but IMO most actually become more active in the community operating services like Meals on Wheels. There are hundreds of thousands of such volunteers in Australia doing a wide range of things.
