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Forward Thinking on how to live with our longer lives with Andrew J. Scott

Forward Thinking

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The Evolution of Life Expectancy

The chances of any one of us actually living exactly as long as life expectancy are pretty small. But there have been these spectacular improvements in life expectancy. Can we expect those trends of two or three years every 10 years to increase? I think probably not. Even if you use one year in every decade, you have very high probabilities of living to your 90s or 100. And that's extraordinary.

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