"Plans from the EU's economic and social committee (that) would see firms carry out psychological tests on older members of staff.... The EU committee said: "The policies target workers at risk due to their personal belief that they lack adaptability skills, self-motivation and the ability to learn.
"If older workers are to stay in work, it is vital for firms to introduce an anticipatory mechanism as early as the middle of a worker's career, to avoid workers becoming at risk." "
Second news that "An American woman suffered a sudden attack of amnesia after having sex with her husband. " Apparently:
"The 59-year-old woman, known only as Alice, had the worrying experience after she and her husband Scott had sex last August. She suddenly, albeit temporarily, lost all memory of the last several years and the ability to form new memories.
After sex they turned on the television, which was showing the Beijing Olympics, and she asked: "Is there an Olympics?"
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...neurologists were soon able to diagnose TGA, a relatively common experience in the over-50s.
Dr Louis Caplan, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, said: "[Sex] is actually a well-known precipitator.
"One of the things people have done to look at transient global amnesia is to look at frequency of various precipitants and sex always comes out as one of the most common."
People with a history of migraines and severe headaches are more prone to TGA.
Although her memory has otherwise returned fully, Alice remains unable to remember the act of intercourse that triggered her attack. However, it is likely that she enjoyed herself.
Dr Caplan said: "It usually is after climax that [TGA] develops." "
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