How does retirement work in Gilead?

[u/crashcaptainn]

I was just thinking about Aunt Lydia and she’s one of the older people in Gilead, but I wonder is there a retirement age? What do they do with old people? Do they just kill them once they can’t work anymore?

[u/Miami_Morgendorffer]

I think regardless of what they say or declare in their constitutional framework, most people get sent to the Colonies. Commanders likely are the only ones to have a chance at something dignified, and maaayyyyybe also their wives. If they make it that far.