Longevity affects everything. When people lived only into their 30s, it made for a vastly different world from ours when people routinely live into their 80s, 90s and even 100s. It affects the workforce, the whole idea of retirement, lifestyles, heath care budgets and much more.
Robert Butler, a physician who has devoted most of his professional life to the study and care of older people (he doesn't like the term "seniors," or "juniors" either), has now summed up his work in a big new book, "The Longevity Revolution." Saul Freedman, Newsday's "Gray Matters" columnists, interviewed Butler on a wide variety of subjects and you can read the conversation, and see photos of people experience that longevity revolution, by clicking here.
--Noel Rubinton