How long can we live?
The continuing rapid age shift in recent years from predominately a younger to an older population in America and many other countries is a problem of great concern. Its socioeconomic implications for the distant future are quite unpredictable due to our inability to answer a few basic questions. How long will life expectancy continue to increase? What is the maximum possible length of life?
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University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, USA.
D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D004467:Economics; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000639:trends; D011640:Public Policy