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Huffington Center On Aging
Centenarians.
No, this piece isn't about a bad movie
about Roman legionnaires. It is about real people today who
have reached a remarkable milestone--they are 100 years of
age, some more than that! They are among the 70,000* Americans
who hold the distinction of being centenarians, a group now
believed to be the fastest growing group of Americans. Some
of them are well known and others are ordinary people who
have lived extraordinarily long lives. Each of them is a page
of history and everyone should read about the remarkable lives
The Huffington Center on Aging and all
those viewing this piece worldwide on the Internet extend
best wishes to:
*Statistics are from the U.S. Census
Bureau for July 1, 2005 accessed from the Internet on
November 20, 2006 at this web page: http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2005/NC-EST2005-01.xls. The same source projects the number of centenarians
in 2011, the year the Baby Boomers start turning 65,
to be 125,245. Will you be one of them? What about your
children in 2050 when there may be almost one
million persons 100+ years of age? (See source at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/usinterimproj/usproj2000-2050.xls.)
If we don't have enough health care professionals
trained in geriatrics for today's older Americans,
what about the far larger number of tomorrow? This
is a major national policy issue that will affect
all of us. Thus, make sure you and your local and
national representatives are knowledgeable about the
implications of a rapidly aging society.
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