 The Taits retired in 1982 and moved to East Boldre in the New Forest, but continued scientific research using simulations on using two Apple IIe computers running in parallel.Tait suffered from leg ulcers in her later years, and then developed a heart condition.She died of renal and heart failure at Lymington Hospital in Hampshire, less than two months before a meeting in London in April 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery and identification of aldosterone.