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Long life in the 21st Century – 1
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. Over the last 100 years, our life expectancy has nearly doubled.
Carstensen: With this near doubling in life expectancy, we now need to apply science and technology—medical science, social science—to solving the problems and challenges of people 50 and older.
Narrator: Dr. Laura Carstensen is from the Stanford Center on Longevity.
Carstensen: We have a long way to go in the treatment of chronic diseases and the treatment of conditions like Alzheimer’s disease that come on gradually and probably reflect some cumulative process that is taking place for decades.
Narrator: Carstensen noted at an NIH lecture that life expectancy has increased so quickly that culture has not had time to catch up. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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