Faster increases in human life expectancy could lead to slower population aging.
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SUBMITTER: Sanderson WC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4398478 | biostudies-literature | 2015
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Faster increases in human life expectancy could lead to slower population aging.
Sanderson Warren C WC Scherbov Sergei S
PloS one 20150415 4
Counterintuitively, faster increases in human life expectancy could lead to slower population aging. The conventional view that faster increases in human life expectancy would lead to faster population aging is based on the assumption that people become old at a fixed chronological age. A preferable alternative is to base measures of aging on people's time left to death, because this is more closely related to the characteristics that are associated with old age. Using this alternative interpret ...[more]
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