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Forever Young: How Society Might Adapt to Longer Lives

April 2, 2018

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Forever Young: How Society Might Adapt to Longer Lives

Scienceline, 4.2.18

"People are living longer lives, and aging in good health for longer periods. Families are more fluid than they used to be," said John Mollenkopf, a sociologist and political scientist at The City University of New York (CUNY). "A lot of the demographic assumptions that our social welfare system is based on no longer correspond with the lives we're living."

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    John Mollenkopf
    • Director, Center for Urban Research
    • Distinguished Professor, Political Science
    • Distinguished Professor, Sociology
    • Distinguished Professor, International Migration Studies
    • Distinguished Professor, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

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