The life expectancy gain of 2.5 years every decade is for life expectancy at birth. Remaining life expectancy in old age is growing by about 1 year per decade.

The life expectancy gain of 2.5 years every decade is for life expectancy at birth. Remaining life expectancy in old age is growing by about 1 year per decade. An interesting, albeit a little too populist take on the options for the future of medicine and longevity: http://inthetank.newamerica.net/blog/2013/09/drooling-your-shoes-or-living-long-and-prospering http://inthetank.newamerica.net/blog/2013/09/drooling-your-s... As I mentioned elsewhere, the current trends are all due to entirely incidental effects on the processes underlying aging. We should expect to see a great discontinuous leap upwards in life expectancy in the next few decades if the present disruption in the field of aging research takes hold and wins control of the mainstream, such that there is a sea change in the community to focus on actually treating aging itself rather than focusing on patching over its late-stage consequences. This hasn't been done yet to any meaningful degree, and so we should expect interesting results once it is a going concern.