Elderly in the US opt to defy or delay retirement

WASHINGTON - They tidy the baggage carts in airports, they sell clothes or work as cashiers in supermarkets at an age when their peers have long ago retired.

Working after 75 is becoming less and less unusual in the United States.

Sandy Thorpe, 76, is part of this growing cohort of US citizens who continue to toil in their later years. By necessity, but by choice too.