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41 Although the babyboom generation will contribute heavily to the growth of the elderly population, increasing life expectancy and declining fertility rates are also responsible for the aging of the U.S. population.
Anyone may fall upon hard times, and most people anticipate being around long enough to benefit from nationalized health care for the elderly.
The NYT carries a front page story chronicling the immense success of firms relying on sweepstakes mailings to foist unwanted magazine subscriptions on the elderly.
He had his troops burn down 70 percent of Serbian houses, passed laws to confiscate Serb property, and allowed gangs of Croat thugs to murder the few elderly Serbs who remained.
To adjust for possible confounding we chose baseline covariates that were prevalent in the elderly, related to mortality and morbidity in previous studies, and likely to be related to BMI.