title: Aging: a challenge to science, society, and the individual.
abstract: The author presents a summary of the nature of the scientific, social, and individual challenges and some of the successes and failures in meeting them. Also presented are some optimistic and perhaps "futuristic" predictions of whether our responses to these challenges will be successful two or three decades from now.
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D003643:Death; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice; D011336:Probability; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012649:Self Concept
chemical_list: D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D004247:DNA