Aging Demographics

This module presented important information about Medicare, health insurance, managed care, policy issues in health care and innovations in team care. The session started with talking about the White House Conference on Aging staff. During the class, professor talked about the statics that there were 44.7 million Americans aged 65 and over and.6 million aged 85 and over. The coming 50 years the number of people aged 65 and over will be double, and age 85 and over will be triple.

Stan Lapidos talked about the overview of the aging demo demographic, and baby boomer generation which will markedly change the US demographics. As people lives longer, they develop some of the comorbid conditions. But these comorbid conditions will not be covered