Finch S C
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, USA.
Yale J Biol Med. 1994 Jan-Apr;67(1-2):15-21.
The continuing rapid age shift in recent years from predominately a younger to an older population in America and many other countries is a problem of great concern. Its socioeconomic implications for the distant future are quite unpredictable due to our inability to answer a few basic questions. How long will life expectancy continue to increase? What is the maximum possible length of life?
近年来,在美国和许多其他国家,人口年龄结构持续快速地从以年轻人为主转变为以老年人为主,这是一个备受关注的问题。由于我们无法回答几个基本问题,其对遥远未来的社会经济影响相当难以预测。预期寿命还会增长多久?人类寿命的最大可能长度是多少?