More than half babies will live to be 100

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More than half babies will live to be 100 - study
Topic Started: Oct 2 2009, 02:35 AM (125 Views)
Sayf Udeen Ismaeel	Oct 2 2009, 02:35 AM Post #1
Icon by meagan_chelsea @ LJ Posts: 7,579 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View All over the shop.	More than half babies will live to be 100 - study MORE than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to be 100 years old if current life expectancy trends continue, according to Danish researchers. Increasing numbers of very old people could pose major challenges for health and social systems, but the research showed that may be mitigated by people not only living longer, but also staying healthier in their latter years. "Very long lives are not the distant privilege of remote future generations - very long lives are the probable destiny of most people alive now in developed countries," Kaare Christensen of the Danish Ageing Research Centre wrote in a study in the Lancet medical journal. The study used Germany as a case study and showed that by 2050, its population will be substantially older and smaller than now - a situation it said was now typical of rich nations. This means smaller workforces in rich nations will have to shoulder an ever-greater burden of ballooning pension and healthcare requirements of the old. Many governments in developed nations are already making moves toward raising the typical age of retirement to try to cope with ageing populations. The researchers said this was an important strategy and added that if part-time work was considered for more of the workforce, that could have yet more benefits. "If people in their 60s and early 70s worked much more than they do nowadays, then most people could work fewer hours per week," they wrote. "Preliminary evidence suggests that shortened working weeks over extended working lives might further contribute to increases in life expectancy and health." Huge increases in life expectancy - of more than 30 years - had been seen in most developed countries over the 20th Century. And death rates in nations with the longest life-expectancy, such as Japan, Sweden and Spain, suggest that, even if health conditions do not improve, three-quarters of babies will live to celebrate their 75th birthdays. "But should life expectancy continue to improve at the same rate, most babies born in rich nations since 2000 can expect to live to 100 years," they wrote. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26154774-23109,00.html



Belle	Oct 2 2009, 07:46 AM Post #2
Posts: 4,615 Group: Moderators Member #288 Joined: Oct 12, 2008 Gender Female	I've always said I'm going to live forever...



Sayf Udeen Ismaeel	Oct 2 2009, 09:12 AM Post #3
Icon by meagan_chelsea @ LJ Posts: 7,579 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View All over the shop.	Doesn't forever also include the past?



sabre	Oct 2 2009, 10:10 AM Post #4
Super Spok to the rescue! Posts: 1,244 Group: Members Member #218 Joined: Sep 16, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Atheist Political View freedom and all that shizzle	immortalness MWAHAHAHA



Belle	Oct 2 2009, 11:35 AM Post #5
Posts: 4,615 Group: Moderators Member #288 Joined: Oct 12, 2008 Gender Female	Sayf Udeen Ismaeel Oct 2 2009, 09:12 AM Doesn't forever also include the past? Ookay, for the rest of forever then



gingerwitch28	Oct 3 2009, 12:12 AM Post #6
twenty-first century ennui Posts: 1,688 Group: Members Member #589 Joined: Apr 18, 2009 Gender Female Religious Views Atheist Political View Social Democracy	sabre Oct 2 2009, 10:10 AM immortalness MWAHAHAHA immortality



sabre	Oct 3 2009, 01:30 AM Post #7
Super Spok to the rescue! Posts: 1,244 Group: Members Member #218 Joined: Sep 16, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Atheist Political View freedom and all that shizzle	gingerwitch28 Oct 3 2009, 12:12 AM sabre Oct 2 2009, 10:10 AM immortalness MWAHAHAHA immortality you didnt have anything better to do?



mzislam123	Oct 3 2009, 01:33 PM Post #8
Posts: 727 Group: Members Member #131 Joined: Jul 30, 2008 Gender Female Religious Views Muslim	LMFAO. wait if they're born now? O.o or do i have a shot at this? xD i lied 2000. shit if i was born like a little later :@



Aezvina	Oct 3 2009, 05:34 PM Post #9
Posts: 80 Group: Members Member #77 Joined: Jun 20, 2008 Gender Female Religious Views Muslim Political View Uneducated Socialist	I wonder how much of those 100 years they have to spend working.



gingerwitch28	Oct 4 2009, 12:21 AM Post #10
twenty-first century ennui Posts: 1,688 Group: Members Member #589 Joined: Apr 18, 2009 Gender Female Religious Views Atheist Political View Social Democracy	Everyone has to be working for longer now, especially with the birthrate going down, there's going to be a rate of retirement age Boomers to working age Xers and Yers of about 2-1 I don't want to live past 80. I'd feel so awful for being a burden on society! Edited by gingerwitch28, Oct 4 2009, 12:22 AM.



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