#39-Longevity Science-The payoff of living longer, healthier lives
Original Webcast Date: February 22, 2008
For those that believe advances in longevity science will reduce disease and disability and extend healthy life, many also believe that advances will allow enormous economic benefits to accrue. By extending healthy years people could remain in the workforce longer, savings would increase, and use of entitlement programs would decline. Dr. Jay Olshansky talked with Crossroads about the economic potential of the longevity dividend and discussed some of the concerns of the skeptics.
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