Helping the world to grow old more gracefully
Ageing, says Richard Suzman, is “reshaping our world.” Like climate change, “it seems inexorable, and is gradual”, he says; but the global impact of ageing on health, disability, wellbeing, and poverty might eventually turn out almost as profound for society as rising temperatures.
Habiba Adan Salat. Photo Jennifer O’Gorman, July 2011 in Dollow, Somalia.
As Director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Suzman has been “essential not only in transforming approaches to ageing research in the USA,” says James P Smith, the Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies at the RAND Corporation, “but he has been instrumental in fostering research on ageing around the world.”
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Richard Suzman: helping the world to grow old more gracefully, David Holmes, The Lancet. 05 November 2014. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61778-5
