Social consequences of manufactured longevity.
The signs are that advances in biomedical sciences will add more years of "manufactured time" to life expectancy in industrialised countries, resulting in unprecedented rates of survival into older ages. Increasing longevity will force economic and social changes and the 20th-century revolution in social roles looks set to continue into the 21st century.
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Department of Sociology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA. Riaz.Hassan@flinders.edu.au
D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008136:Longevity; D012940:Social Problems; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors