Live to 120? Can We? Do You Want To? (VIDEO)
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Live to 120? Can We? Do You Want To?
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By 2050, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections, one-in-five Americans will be 65 or older, and at least 400,000 will be 100 or older. Some futurists think even more radical changes are coming that would allow humans to remain healthy and productive to the age of 120 or more.
According to Pew, many Americans do not look happily on the prospect of living much longer lives. (Just ask my mother-in-law who at 82, is in perfect health and on no medications. Every time I tell her she will live to 100, she shutters!) More think it would be a bad thing than a good thing for society if people lived decades longer than is possible today.
People don’t see it for themselves but think others would avail themselves of whatever is available to live longer. And interestingly, they also think such options would be available only to the wealthy.
The findings suggest that the U.S. public is not particularly worried about the gradual rise in the number of older Americans. Nearly nine-in-ten adults surveyed say that “having more elderly people in the population” is either a good thing for society (41%) or does not make much difference (47%). Just 10% see this trend as a bad thing.
American Recall Center New Resource for Consumers (VIDEO)
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American Recall Center New Resource for Consumers
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Is Your Doctor Advising You About Sunscreen?
Physicians mention sunscreen at a low rate during patient visits, even to patients with a history of skin cancer, according to a study by Kristie L. Akamine, M.D., Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, N.C., and colleagues.
Researchers used the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey to identify patient visits to non-federal outpatient physician offices at U.S. ambulatory care practices from January 1989 through December 2010 during which sunscreen was recommended.
According to the results, physicians mentioned sunscreen at about 12.8 million visits (0.07 percent). Physicians reported mentioning sunscreen at 0.9 percent of patient visits associated with the diagnosis of a skin disease. Sunscreen was mentioned most frequently to white patients and least frequently to children, the results also indicate.
ÛÏThe findings are concerning because children and adolescents get the most sun exposure of any age group, as they tend to spend much of their time playing outdoors. Up to 80 percent of sun damage is thought to occur before age 21 years, and sunburns in childhood greatly increase the risk for future melanoma,Û the authors conclude.
So don’t wait to be ask, ask your physicians for recommendations specific to your sunscreen needs. Of course we all should be applying it. But conditions may vary with each person. So best to check.
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Source: JAMA Dermatol. Published September 4, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.4741)
