Sarah Lancashire Quotes

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

The changes taking place in the age structure of the countries around the world are stunning.

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.