Both ragtime pianist Eubie Blake and baseball great Mickey Mantle are credited with the saying, "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."

But when a group of 500 retired octogenarians was surveyed about what constitutes an average successful retirement, their focus was on taking care of the money, even more than their bodies.

The New York Life/Ipsos study asked retired octogenarians, among other questions, the most important factors in their decision to retire.

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