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Video: How will society change as the US population ages?

  • Written by Marcia G. Ory, Regents and Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University
imageFamilies are still the primary caregivers for older Americans.MoMo Productions/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Editor’s note: Even as average life expectancy has started to trend downward in the U.S., Americans 65 and older are living longer. The change toward longer old age will have profound effects on health care needs, families and what it...

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