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Summary: Advances in medicine has increased the life expectancy of Americans. As a greater proportion of people live longer, there will be stresses on our econo
by alphaoverlord 15y ago
Summary: Advances in medicine has increased the life expectancy of Americans. As a greater proportion of people live longer, there will be stresses on our economy and healthcare system and society's expectations/perceptions of the elderly will change. We cannot predict the future, but much medical research is being done and we hope that can address problems associated with aging.
No offense, but this article doesn't say anything insightful or novel about aging other than rehashing what is relatively obvious.
- tspiteri 15y agoNo offense, but this article doesn't say anything insightful or novel about aging other than rehashing what is relatively obvious. I find myself saying this quite a few times too. But sometimes I wonder, is it because of such articles that these things are relatively obvious?
- treeface 15y agoPerhaps to the uninitiated, but I think any reasonably-informed person can keep up with at least the latest headline-grabbing advances in medicine. A highly generalized technological vector, one could say, is not too difficult to glean from the day-to-day news, but the distance between now and the realization of any sort of major advance is always difficult to determine.