News at HSPHDavid Canning, professor of economics and international health at Harvard School of Public Health, told the Harvard Gazette that the challenges posed by more people living longer — including overburdened retirement and medical systems — are good problems to have. Canning is deputy director of HSPH's Program on the Global Demography of Aging, run out of the Center for Population and Development Studies, which is examining changing global aging patterns and their consequences. He sees the problems as a reflection of outdated institutions.
“These institutions were set up for people with shorter life spans. We have to change the institutions,” Canning said in the Gazette. “The fundamental thing is that having a long, healthy life is a good thing.”
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