2017: https://acl.gov/sites/default/files/Aging and Disability in America/2017OlderAmericansProfile.pdf
The population age 65 and over has increased from 37.2 million in 2006 to 49.2 million in 2016 (a 33% increase) and is projected to almost double to 98 million in 2060. By 2040, there will be about 82.3 million older persons, over twice their number in 2000.
Obviously some of this is overall population growth, but we're getting old fast. On the plus side, a lower percentage is suffering through mid-life crises of their own doing (certainly no external factors to change that recently)
I know this isn't the argument you guys are having... but looking at the median age of a coved victim (the dead kind) is about 72. So, given that half the victims are above that age, and half below. Looking at this graphic, that shouldn't make the rollout plan to terribly difficult, yet, some folks need to overcomplicate it.
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