Elizabeth Warren Quotes

The increasing elderly population, rising expectations about what should be available, and costs of medical advancement—these are problems all countries face ...

As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.

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

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

Just 10 percent of the population—mainly the elderly—consumes about 80 percent of health care expenditures, primarily on expensive chronic illnesses and end-of-life costs. Historically, the longer lives that medical advances have given us have run exactly parallel to the increase in chronic illness and the explosion in costs. Can we afford to live longer—much less radically longer?

In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

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.

I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.

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.

We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.

No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.

Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

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.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

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.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

Americans living longer than ever must save more than ever.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.