TY - JOUR
AU - Berger, Cathie
AB - Creating Lifelong Communities: One Region’s Response to the Opportunity of Longevity Kathryn Lawler Cathie Berger The Gift of Longevity th Getting to grow older is the great gift of the 20 century—a gift most Americans are still figuring out how to enjoy. In 1900, life expectancy at birth was only 47.3 years. Through a series of public health advancements, social policies, and programs, U.S. life expectancy is now in the late seventies for men and early eighties for women (Kung, Hoyert, Xu, and Murphy, 2008, p. 25, table 7). More than just an interesting statistic, this dramatic change, occurring over a relatively short period of time, creates challenges and opportunities in all aspects of society. For the most part, our country’s health care and social services systems and housing and transportation infrastructure are dashing to catch up. That’s not to say we’ve done nothing. Our growing older, existing systems and supports are not nation has responded in several major ways to the prepared to withstand the pressures and demands of relatively new experience of getting to grow old. the baby boom population. Medicare’s Trust Fund In 1935, the Social Security Act provided Old Age will start to run a 
TI - Creating Lifelong Communities: One Region’s Response to the Opportunity of Longevity
JO - Public Policy & Aging Report
DO - 10.1093/ppar/19.1.9
DA - 2009-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/creating-lifelong-communities-one-region-s-response-to-the-opportunity-WrOmBqDFeR
SP - 9
EP - 14
VL - 19
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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