The hot new app: old people

摘要

By 2030, more than 1 billion people in the world will be 65 years of age or older, according to Luc Van den Hove, the CEO of imec, the research consortium based in Belgium. In a presentation in the fall of 2011, Van den Hove showed a chart where the aging population grows rapidly after 2010, reaching 1.5 billion by 2050, far outpacing the growth of the number of children younger than 5, which is expected to remain relatively flat. "This is going to create a tremendous problem keeping our healthcare system sustainable," Van den Hove said.