Alexander De Croo Quotes

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I think older women still have a full life.

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

The work of the youth is a blanket for the old.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.