INVESTMENT
AGE
It’s not a number at all
According to James Carey, director of the UC Davis-based
programme on Biodemographic Determinants of Life Span, today’s
healthy, active 60- and 70-year-olds have the same mortality risk as a
45-year-old did at the beginning of the previous century, and living
till 100 is becoming – well, not commonplace, but certainly not that
unusual. And, along with that change in life expectancy comes an
enormous change in life expectations – and lifestyles. There are still