Overview.

Preparing for a future where more people live longer is one of society’s greatest challenges. The long-term social and economic impact on health and care services as well as on the provision of pensions, annuities and insurance needs a great deal of thought. It will require the best possible understanding of what has been happening and why, and the use of that knowledge to try to narrow the range of uncertainty about future trends.

The Longevity Science Advisory Panel was established to bring actuarial science and epidemiology closer together to give us a better chance of understanding the past and the present and what might drive future change. We chose an analysis of improvements by socioeconomic group as our first study.

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