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If 75 is the new 65, we need to rethink what it means to be old

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We must think about older people in terms of their remaining life expectancy, not chronological age. Image: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Warren Sanderson
Professor of Economics, Stony Brook University, (The State University of New York)
Sergei Scherbov
Deputy Director of World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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