If 75 is the new 65, we need to rethink what it means to be old
Researchers believe that it’s better to think about older people not in terms of their chronological ages, but in terms of their remaining life expectancy.
Sergei Scherbov is the Deputy Program Director of IIASA's World Population Program (POP), Director of Demographic Analysis at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), and Leader of the Population Dynamics and Forecasting Research Group at the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Researchers believe that it’s better to think about older people not in terms of their chronological ages, but in terms of their remaining life expectancy.
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