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Celebrity chef Rick Stein, 77, urges companies 'not to push older people out of the workplace' and says early retirement contributed to his father's mental health problems
Rick Stein has revealed he employs people in their 60s and 70s as he believes early retirement contributed to his father's mental health problems.
The celebrity chef, 77, who owns a chain of high-end seafood restaurants, has urged companies not to 'push older people out of the workplace' as his father Eric 'struggled without all the camaraderie and pressure of work.' Stein's father, who suffered from bipolar disorder, jumped off a cliff near the family's holiday home in Cornwall in 1965, shortly after he left his role as Managing Director of The Distillers Company. Earlier this month, Stein revealed that he had had open heart surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London after struggling with breathlessness (pictured with wife Sarah)
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