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...even hard-nosed lab scientists admit that the Nun Study has helped sharpen the focus of their research. The study has impressed the National Institutes of Health enough that it has provided $5 million in funding over the past decade and a half. "It is," says Dr. Richard Suzman, director of the National Institute on Aging, "a very innovative, pioneering study...
...that by 2020, more than a third of all Americans will be 50 or older. And by 2050, those 65 or older could outnumber kids 14 or younger for the first time in U.S. history. "The aging of the population is changing American society in fundamental ways," observes Richard Suzman, chief demographer for the National Institute on Aging. "It's the equivalent of the waves of immigrants who came to this country, or of the urbanization and industrialization that changed the U.S. landscape in this century...
...careers and give something back to the community. And while it also challenges individuals to prepare themselves physically, emotionally and financially for an extended span of years, some recent trends have been encouraging. The proportion of chronically disabled older Americans has fallen steadily in the past decade, a trend Suzman calls "one of the most important findings in health demography that I've seen in years." Advances in fitness, he says, can help ease the burden on the generations that will have to foot the coming Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid bills...
...picture of 4 million doddering, medically needy centenarians is not pretty, but the prospect may not be so grim. People who make it past 85 are a hardy group, says Richard Suzman of the National Institute on Aging. About 30% still live in the community and "are robust in the sense that they are able to lift shopping bags, walk half a mile and climb stairs...
...suspicions are not altogether farfetched. De Klerk has been criticized repeatedly by human-rights groups for not reining in his security forces. Despite previous success in crushing illegal A.N.C. military activities, the government has notably failed to punish the perpetrators of township massacres. Says Helen Suzman, a white liberal and former Member of Parliament: "They have got to get cracking on the security forces and weed out those elements known to be against reform...