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Life expectancy to break 90 barrier by 2030 (US has lowest life expectancy)

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Tak3n

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Hold on to your taxes, as forget world war, unless countries (not all) come up with a solution to social care of the elderly, it will be this that collapses a country.

South Korean women will be the first in the world to have an average life expectancy above 90, a study suggests.
Imperial College London and the World Health Organization analysed lifespans in 35 industrialised countries.
It predicted all would see people living longer in 2030 and the gap between men and women would start to close in most countries.
The researchers said the findings posed big challenges for pensions and care for elderly people.
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The US also performs poorly and is on course to have the lowest life expectancy of rich countries by 2030.
The study predicts an average age of 80 for men and 83 for women - roughly the same state Mexico and Croatia will have achieved.
"They are almost opposite of South Korea," added Prof Ezzati.
"[Society in the US is] very unequal to an extent the whole national performance is affected - it is the only country without universal health insurance.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39040146

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Zaru

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Retirement age has to go up significantly. There's no way around it even if we somehow make it past the baby boomer section of the age distribution. If a large part of the population makes it to their 90s then they're spending more than half of their lives receiving instead of earning money.

Sadly any sensible change to the retirement system (no matter the country) is terrible in the eyes of the voter if it means more work and/or less money.
 
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ClosingADoor

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And over here turning back the retirement age to 65 is an actual campaign thing for some parties. So basically, you are growing up and studying for the first 25 years. Then you work for 40 years. And then you retire for another 25 years. Totally workable... /s
 
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Future

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ClosingADoor said:
And over here turning back the retirement age to 65 is an actual campaign thing for some parties. So basically, you are growing up and studying for the first 25 years. Then you work for 40 years. And then you retire for another 25 years. Totally workable... /s
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It's not that easy to work when you are that old though. Companies don't even want to hire you.
 
Mr Nash

Mr Nash

square pies = communism
I can hardly wait until regenerative medicine makes us immortal and we can all feel woefully inadequate next to subsequent generations of CRISPR engineered , Primarch-like super humans! What a time to be alive!
 
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FyreWulff

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Future said:
It's not that easy to work when you are that old though. Companies don't even want to hire you.
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Yep. Even if you're capable they want someone they can mold to their style.

Just another reason why serious thoughts about UBI need to happen.
 
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Marz

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I'm 25 years old, I think I'm going to just barely miss the age where we unlock the secret to immortality. Lol shits gonna suck.
 
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Robiin

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Something needs to be done about the studying/retirement system. Now in my country it's "normal" to find/start a career at 30. Then you work until 65/67, and then you are expected to live for another 30 years? Insane.
 
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Flux

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Robiin said:
Something needs to be done about the studying/retirement system. Now in my country it's "normal" to find/start a career at 30. Then you work until 65/67, and then you are expected to live for another 30 years? Insane.
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Is your country all PhDs, doctors and lawyers? Joking aside, most average peopleseem to start work in their early 20s, still way too long after retirement age to death. Bigger issue is the lifespan may be longer, but medicine isn't advanced enough for things like neurological disease of heart failure. You'll live, but need constant care, and that burden can be damning to most healthcare systems.
 
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Plum

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So do studies like this take into account predicted future events or do they just assume that things will be the same in the late 21st century as they are now?
 
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DJKhaled

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ClosingADoor said:
And over here turning back the retirement age to 65 is an actual campaign thing for some parties. So basically, you are growing up and studying for the first 25 years. Then you work for 40 years. And then you retire for another 25 years. Totally workable... /s
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This is a nonsense post.


But this is all the more reason for universal income.
 
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SpacLock

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If you're wondering why America is so low, it's shit like obesity and healthcare costs.

If you're American, you're healthy, and you're upper class, you'll be right there with those South Koreans!
 
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Spaced Harrier

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"Raise the retirement age!"

Meanwhile Corporations sit on literal (and metaphorical) country sized vaults of money, and are ploughing straight in the automation apocalypse as fast as they can.
 
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Corky

Nine out of ten orphans can't tell the difference.
Anyone know off the cuff of studies that try to figure out why women live longer than men in general?
 
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Vanillalite

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Wonder if my Mom will make that. She went for her checkup yesterday (she's about to turn 70) and her Dr said she'd easily live till her mid 80s at least.
 
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RJT

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StayDead said:
Why?

Why would you want to work longer? We should have more time to enjoy life, not waste it working.
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Some people don't consider work to be a waste of their lives. I want to work until I'm 80, although starting at 50 I hope to reduce the hours per week considerably.
 
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ClosingADoor

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Future said:
It's not that easy to work when you are that old though. Companies don't even want to hire you.
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Instead of then sticking to the same retirement age, we need to find solutions for that. We need more specific approaches, instead of a blanket: 65 and you're done. I get that some jobs will not have you working that long. But there are also plenty where you can.

DJKhaled said:
This is a nonsense post.

But this is all the more reason for universal income.
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How is it a nonsense post? When retirement ages where set at 65 here, the average life expectancy was around 70. Now it is around 80 and climbing, so we can't just have it stuck at the same age. Meanwhile, people need to stay in school longer also. So you have the situation where you are not working for over half your life. That is not a sustainable thing under the current system.
 
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Ratrat

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Does the UK number between men and women being pretty close suggest being closer in terms of equality compared to...say Chile?
 
Thelonelykoopa

Thelonelykoopa

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Ratrat said:
Does the UK number between men and women being pretty close suggest being closer in terms of equality compared to...say Chile?
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Not quite most likely their is something perhaps job or life style related going on in Chile that is affecting the men scores.
 
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PHOENIXZERO

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At the rate I'm going I don't see myself making it to 2030, a lot of us in the U.S. Probably won't either for other reasons. Also seeing my grandmother who turned 94 today in the condition she's in, especially mentally, I don't think I'd want to live that long barring some major medical breakthroughs. One, preventing if not outright reversing the effects of Dementia and Alzheimer's, along with that just the potential huge decline of motor skills and everything else that generally comes with advanced aging and your body turning on you.
 
Laieon

Laieon

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As an American living in South Korea, will the magical life expectancy rub off on me or am I screwed?

I'm shocked at that figure though. People drink like there's no tomorrow here and food tends to have quite a bit of sodium. Maybe chimek is the key to eternal life?
 
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Nabbis

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About a decade of that will be you spinning around in your diapers suffering from a variety of conditions. IMO life expectancy is a poor measurement of anything but pharmaceuticals after about 80, drugs can keep us alive but the quality of life is nothing good.
 
BeforeU

BeforeU

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
I want to live as long as I am healthy. I dont want to get sick in 70s and live shitty live until 90s.
 
NekoFever

NekoFever

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It's going to be this that forces us to adopt universal incomes. Even the bootstraps brigade doesn't want to work for 60 years and spend their retirement in a care home, which is the only way to make everyone living to 90 affordable.
 
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