How about the good old US of A? We're not doing badly. In the U.S., centenarians are expected to increase from 75,000 to more than 600,000 by mid-century.
Will Obamacare be good to them ?
I’m sure 0bamacare will make it a priority to kill them off to save money.
Obamacare could put a dent in this population.
They will be euthanized and their estates looted to buy more votes from illegal aliens.
Only if they got time to stand in queue...
The Socialist morons we now have running Washington believe that “End-of-life” care is what is bankrupting thier hopes for a Free Healthcare system.
The old must be sacrificed for the greater good.
Ask your older fiends: “WILL YOU DIE FOR THE ONE?”
And just think with they baby boomers they’ll all be drawing
social security, at least as long as it lasts.
I retired early and am damn glad I did.
If I should be fortunate enough to achieve that age, I will be sniping every day.
For several decades now, we’ve been told that everything under the sun is killing us off in droves and the only solution is more health and environmental laws, but folks are living longer than ever. These same folks managed to live thru all those years with no environmental regulations.
I sorta figured something like this was going on when I happened to notice a standard, commercial 100th birthday card in the Hallmark rack at the drugstore. If there was enough of a market that a card like that could be stocked and sold as just another greeting card in an ordinary Walgreens instead of a rare specialty item at a boutique card shop... well, there must be quite a few old-timers out there.
I remember reading a while back a rather optimistic article about the prospects of curing cancer (maybe not soon, but there were several avenues that looked promising in decades to come). A few paragraphs in, the writer made the point that if it paid off, the real need about mid-century would be for a cure/treatment/preventative for Alzheimers, because the assisted care system would be catastrophically overloaded by extremely elderly people who had lived long enough to be affected when otherwise they would have died before it became an issue.
Soon the centenarians will be rioting in the streets. Beware!
Interestingly enough, there are presently only 77 people who are 110 years old or greater.
6 million to 77 in 10 years.