Elderly Population Quotes

Only 44 percent of Social Security beneficiaries perceive themselves to have benefitted from a government social program.

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.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

There's another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s.

Old folks are the nation.

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

The taxpayer base in the suburbs is going to be increasingly made up of an older cohort. They don’t care about schools. They care about making traffic signs readable and supporting services that will drive older people around when they stop being able to drive.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

Old. A viable die-able age.

old folks is the nation.

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.

In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

Toronto is like a city of grandmas.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

They call Florida the wrestling graveyard because it's where we all end up. The weather is easier on us here.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.