Person who collects a pension, most commonly because of a retirement from the workforce

An abandoned retirement home in a garden, with an empty swimming pool in front of it, representing the premature death of smokers from heart attacks. Colour lithograph by By Heart Kommunikation AG, 199-.

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An abandoned retirement home in a garden, with an empty swimming pool in front of it, representing the premature death of smokers from heart attacks. Colour lithograph by By Heart Kommunikation AG, 199-.