“If young people realize they might live past 100 and be in good shape to 90 or 95, it might make more sense to mix education, work and child-rearing across more years of life instead of devoting the first two decades exclusively to education, the next three or four decades to career and parenting, and the last four solely to leisure.”
James W. Vaupel (Duke University)
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/03/aging.html
Fascinating thought… How would you arrange/plan/dream your life if you knew you’d live to be in good shape at 90?
Better question yet: How should the institutions around us, guiding and supporting us in our lives, change??