dotage

We meet Bob in his dotage; retired from life as a librarian, he stumbles into a new sense of purpose as a senior-center volunteer.

Charles took over the family business well past normal retirement age, while Amis was denied the illustrious dotage that great writers deserve.

However, she said the North wouldn’t simply dismiss his words as a “nonsensical remark from the person in his dotage.”

The generations of theatergoers who grew up on book musicals, replete with original songs that were written in a distinctive Broadway style, with roots in operetta and Tin Pan Alley, are in their dotage now.

That’s why some version of “retirement” may be available to you even if you haven’t socked away much for your dotage.