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Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25876033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121922 |
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author | Sanderson, Warren C. Scherbov, Sergei |
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description | 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 interpretation, we show that faster increases in life expectancy would lead to slower population aging. Among other things, this finding affects the assessment of the speed at which countries will age. |
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spelling | pubmed-43984782015-04-21 Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging Sanderson, Warren C. Scherbov, Sergei PLoS One Research Article 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 interpretation, we show that faster increases in life expectancy would lead to slower population aging. Among other things, this finding affects the assessment of the speed at which countries will age. Public Library of Science 2015-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4398478/ /pubmed/25876033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121922 Text en © 2015 Sanderson, Scherbov http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Sanderson, Warren C. Scherbov, Sergei Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging |
title | Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging |
title_full | Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging |
title_fullStr | Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging |
title_full_unstemmed | Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging |
title_short | Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging |
title_sort | faster increases in human life expectancy could lead to slower population aging |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25876033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121922 |
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