The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency overseeing the programs, has warned that between 2015 and 2021, health spending is set to grow at an average annual rate of 6.2% as a result of the aging of the population, expansion of access to care under the federal health-care law, and an improvement in economic conditions.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration on Aging (AoA), the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as well as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have also moved the HIV and aging agenda forward.
With the leading edge of the 78 million baby boomers now in their early 60s, America's aging population underpins the bullish future of health care as a sector.
The generic industry is being driven by the aging of the population, escalating health care costs, political and financial pressure to accommodate generic drug growth, and increased generic penetration, especially in Japan, Italy, Spain and France.
Ginkgo supplements were no better than a placebo for preventing dementia, according to the study, which was sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
The aging of the baby boomers and rising health care costs will push up government spending.
This optimal tax argument suggests that if we expect government spending to rise as a share of the economy (because of demographics, aging, health care, for example), it would be better to raise taxes now (that is run surpluses) to prevent a much larger increase in taxes in the future.
Yes, the biggest driver of our long-term debt is the rising cost of health care for an aging population.
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It may surprise some readers that we were worried about long-term fiscal trends more than a decade ago, but independent budget analysts and the CBO recognized that rising health care costs and the aging of the baby boomers would put enormous pressure on the federal government.
First, they inserted a fraud question into surveys that are conducted annually by the Rush Memory and Aging Project, which questions the elderly about the gamut of their health, neurological, physical and mental developments.
Like Congressman Paul Ryan, he assumes that federal spending can be immunized from the demands of population aging and rising health care costs.
Following a decade during which he made lots of presentations to groups for the aging and health care companies, he saw a future in spreading his positive aging message to corporate clients.
Despite managed care's unceasing attempts to restrain the costs of health care, aging baby boomers are rushing to repair their creaky joints, valves and tendons in record numbers.
Most of the future projected growth of government is due to a rising health care costs and an aging population.
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Dr. Boustani, who is also associate director of the Healthy Aging Brain Center, says he is working with health-care systems in other states to duplicate the program, with an aim to affordably scale up the model to a national level.
These important steps will not only build health care career opportunities for veterans, but also help to expand the health workforce to meet the needs of the growing and aging population.
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Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
The Administration on Aging (AoA) participated in the first international observance of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day in 2006, hosted by the World Health Organization.
They are expected to benefit from the aging of a population ever more reliant on prescription drugs, as well as wider availability of advanced medicines and health insurance coverage.
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