Sex and getting older

Sex gets better with age, according to the American Journal of Medicine. 
Well, the news is not all good. Your biggest risk to your health is getting older. See here. 

Not forgiving

After 77 years of marriage, a man is divorcing his wife for an affair she had back in the 1940s. He is 99 years old, she is 96.

Getting old and older

AP: The rolls of America's oldest old are surging: Nearly 2 million now are 90 or over, nearly triple their numbers of just three decades ago.
It's not all good news. They're more likely than the merely elderly to live in poverty and to have disabilities, creating a new challenge to already strained retiree income and health care programs.

Living longer

On August 23, 2011, I did a post on a new book by Sonia Arrison called 100 Plus. Nick Schulz has a new article commenting on her book. If life expectancy does increase to such an extent, I believe it will create more problems than it solves.

Want to live forever?

Scientists believe they are going to "cure" aging, and the first person who will live to be 150 years old has already been born. Well, I doubt it. What if our bodies just wear out since they were not made to last forever? The prospect really raises some questions about Social Security, LOL.

You may recall the Biblical story of Methuselah, who lived to be 969 years. See Gen. 5: 21-27. Apparently conditions were different back then.

When good news is bad

Chicago Sun-Times: "Forty years from now, women will live 89.2 to 93.3 years; and men, 83.2 to 85.9 years — driven by ongoing advances in both treatment of major fatal diseases and slowing of the aging process — according to the report in a journal of health and health policy, The Milbank Quarterly."

Life expectancy today stands at 80 to 81 for women; 75 to 76 for men. So women are projected to live about 10 years longer, and men almost as long.

“Change is coming,” said one of the authors of the MacArthur Foundation-funded study, Dr. S. Jay Olshansky, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor.
“It’s going to come rapidly, and it’s going to begin in 2011 when the baby boomers begin to retire,” Olshansky said. “It’s going to have a dramatic negative effect on health, the national economy, and key government programs and institutions like Social Security and Medicare.”

When you add longer life expectancies to, what, 76 million baby boomers, wow! Medicare and Social Security outlays will expand dramatically. The United States will be an aging society with people over age 60 outnumbering those under age 15. Sounds like an inverted population pyramid, to me.

The study is apparently not available online.