Modern Aging Has Two Very New Dangers (Psychology Today, Cultural Animal)

Roy Baumeister · 27 May 2023

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Aging has two new dangers that emerged from changes in society: outliving your money and outliving your brain

Their wordsBut just in the past couple decades, aging has developed two new dangers. Both have only emerged as a result of fundamental changes in society. In a nutshell, the two new threats are outliving your money, and outliving your brain.
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As people live longer by caring for their bodies, dementia will claim larger and larger numbers

Their wordsWhen most people died before 70, only a small and unfortunate minority got dementia. But now that people take better care of their bodies, such that increasing numbers manage to live until 90 or 100, dementia will claim larger and larger numbers.

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