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The Re-aging project documents the results of its research in international presentations and high level publications, ranging from peer-reviewed journals to commercial books. 


Prospective Longevity: A New Vision of Population Aging

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In this pathbreaking book, Sanderson and Scherbov provide a new way to measure individual and population aging. Instead of counting how many years we’ve lived, we should think about the number of years we have left, our “prospective age.” Two people who share the same chronological age probably have different prospective ages, because one will outlive the other. Combining their forward-thinking measure of our remaining years with other health metrics, Sanderson and Scherbov show how we can generate better demographic estimates, which inform better policies. Measuring prospective age helps make sense of observed patterns of survival, reorients understanding of health in old age, and clarifies the burden of old-age dependency. The metric also brings valuable data to debates over equitable intergenerational pensions.

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Sergei Scherbov

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