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The Impact of Economic Metrics on Aging
As an economist, and as somebody interested in economics, it just fascinates me to know whether economic metrics are capturing any of this change. Age is not a terribly good indicator of someone's needs if you lack the law together as 65 plus. And because of growing life expectancy, every 58 year old has now got more years ahead of them than past ones. Because we're living these long lives, most of the diseases we get have a common cause - age.