Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

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

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.

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

When the social security age was first established as 65, most people didn't live to be that old.

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

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

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.

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.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

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.

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.

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

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.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.

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

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.

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

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.