Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fastest growing age group in the U.S. proportionately is the over-85s, he reports, and children born this year can expect to live 16 years longer than their grandparents born in 1930. Such statistics prompt visions of a life-span beyond 100 years, a prospect Callahan finds alarming. In the past two decades, the amount of the federal budget spent on those over 65 leaped from 15% to 28%; and the $80 billion spent in health care for the old in 1981 is expected to pass $200 billion by the year 2000. The result is a serious threat...
...chances of recovery. "A 35-year-old has not had a chance to live out a full life-span," he says. "Some research may come along in time to save them -- we don't know that they are all going to die." Callahan carefully avoids setting a flat cutoff age, preferring to let the condition of the patient, the judgment of the doctor and the wishes of the individual interact...
...There are "better ways to spend money than indefinitely extending life," he charges. Long treatment of the elderly drains funds from the health needs of other groups and from urgent social problems. He also has withering views about many of the non-ill elderly: the "young-old" who deny age and indulge an "it's-my-turn" attitude. Their lives, says Callahan crustily, would gain meaning "if instead of taking a cruise, they work for a cause...
...women and four men take on a total of more than 50 characters. Each actor covers his share of WASP territory--each one seems to play a cute, babbling brat at least once, and there are enough overbearing octogenarians and strait-laced domestics to give everyone a chance to age. Director Onbargi and his cast never allow the quick switches to render the evening's entertainment a mere collection of acting exercises. Aside from its location in the Ex, there's nothing experimental about this Dining Room...
...Except for the fact that he was obviously notcollege-age, he looked normal," DelaRosa said. "Itdidn't occur to me that he was a robber...