Summary: Advances in medicine has increased the life expectancy of Americans. As a greater proportion of people live longer, there will be stresses on our economy and healthcare system and society's expectations/perceptions of the elderly will change. We cannot predict the future, but much medical research is being done and we hope that can address problems associated with aging.

No offense, but this article doesn't say anything insightful or novel about aging other than rehashing what is relatively obvious.