Tag: life expectancy
The brief’s key findings are: As life expectancy rises, more retirees face the higher poverty risk associated with very old ages due to declining resources, cumulative inflation, and widowhood. In response, some propose boosting Social Security for the oldest old by either: adopting an annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for all retirees that more closely matches t…
The future depends on our ability to curb obesity. Demographics may not be destiny, but they are certainly interesting. We have just finished up two studies on the topic. The first looked at the fluctuation in mortality rates over time in the United States and the second – just released – explores why the United…
