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- Title
Successful Societal Adaptation to the Aging of America.
- Authors
Rowe, John W.
- Abstract
In the last 150 years, a varied portfolio of initiatives, ranging from agricultural developments that enhanced availability of a sustainable food supply to a panoply of public-health and medical advances, have led to one of the greatest achievements in history--the gift of life extension. In many parts of the world today, people live 30 years longer than their ancestors of just four generations ago. The amelioration of premature death was a great benefit, but one cost of this triumph was the rise of chronic degenerative diseases in older populations. This increase in disease has spawned widespread concern that these accomplishments of increased life span have created a demographic time bomb with consequences that doomsayers maintain may destroy economies and cultures.
- Subjects
AGING -- Government policy; FOOD supply; PUBLIC health; DEGENERATION (Pathology); LIFE spans
- Publication
Public Policy & Aging Report, 2011, Vol 21, Issue 4, p11
- ISSN
1055-3037
- Publication type
Article