Life expectancy in the United States has increased to about 78 years and is continuing to increase. Many respected demographers anticipate that life expectancy will top out around 88 years for females...


Life expectancy in the United States has increased to about 78 years and is continuing
to increase. Many respected demographers
anticipate that life expectancy will top out
around 88 years for females and 82 years
for males. But Donald Loria, a professor at
the New Jersey Medical School, believes
that the average could reach 100 in the next
few decades just with continued gradual
increases and 110 or 120 with revolutionary
advances in health and medicine (Curtis,
2004). Some others do not see this as being
likely or possible.
But what if this happened? What if average life expectancy reached 100 or 110
by mid-century? Identify the changes
that would occur in social institutions if
30 or 40 percent of the population was
age 65 or older (up from today’s 12.5
percent). If we knew this change was going to occur within the next five decades,
what social planning could be done to try
to facilitate it?



Jun 06, 2022
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