Camera, Edwin Verstegen ; editor, Jan Langeveld.

Vita Needle, a company based in Needham, Massachusetts, has an unusual and successful employment policy: it only hires elderly people to work for the company. The average age is 70-plus and there is no set retirement age. The employees of Vita Needle talk about the joys of learning new skills, the solidarity and support of the staff, but most of all the opportunity to be productive in their later years. Fred Hartman, the owner of Vita Needle, talks about his reasoning behind the employmnet policy and his great delight in its success.

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