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Friday, August 16, 2013

Survey Finds Most Americans Don't Want to Live Beyond Age 100

The survey of more than 2,000 people by the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project sought to probe the nation's views on the prospect of living longer lives.

Already, aging adults account for a growing share of the US population. About 41 million Americans are 65 or older, making up 13 percent of the population, up from four percent in 1900.

By 2050, that number will rise to 20 percent, according to Census Bureau projections.

A majority of US adults (56 percent) said they would not "choose to undergo medical treatments to slow the aging process and live to be 120 or more," said the Pew report. A total of 38 percent said they would.

With the average US life expectancy at 78.7 years, more than two thirds said they would like to live longer than that, somewhere between 79 and 100.

The median, or midpoint, for ideal lifespan was 90, or about 11 years longer than the current US average.

Asked whether current medical treatments are worth the costs because they help people live longer and better quality lives, 54 percent agreed and 41 percent disagreed on grounds that modern medical advances "often create as many problems as they solve."

There was also significant concern about how life-extending technologies would be used, and by whom.

Seventy-nine percent said everyone should be able to get medical treatments that would slow, stop or reverse the aging process.

However, two-thirds said that in practice, only the wealthy would have access.

Two-thirds of respondents also said that longer life expectancies would strain natural resources, and believed that "medical scientists would offer the treatment before they fully understood how it affects people's health."

Views were split on the question of whether the economy would be more productive if people could work longer -- with 44 percent agreeing and 53 percent rejecting this idea.

For certain health issues, Americans were optimistic that medical science would perform well in the future. Seven in 10 said that they expect a cure for most cancers by 2050, and 71 percent said artificial arms and legs will perform better than natural ones.

"And, on balance, the public tends to view medical advances that are available today to prolong life as good (63%) rather than as interfering with the natural cycle of life (32%)," the survey said.

By 2050, the government forecasts there will be at least 400,000 Americans aged 100 or older.

Just 10 percent said the trend toward an aging population is a bad thing.

One quarter said a major anti-aging breakthrough that would allow average folk to live to 120 and beyond was likely by 2050.

The telephone poll was conducted from March 21 to April 8 among a nationally representative sample of 2,012 adults and carried a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

Source-AFP

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Saturday, August 10, 2013

According to a study on three young Americans living at home

by Sheela Philomena on August 2, 2013 at 11:11 new lifestyle more than a third of young American adults live with his or her parents, finds study published by the Pew Research Institute. Study Says One in Three Young Americans Living at Home
In 2012, 36% of Americans between the ages of 18 to 31 - or 21.6 million - lived with their parents, compared with 18.5 million in 2007, the year that the great recession began.

At least one in three of the wise were students.

Those aged 18 to 24 are more likely to remain in the proverbial family cocoon, compared to 16 percent of 25 - to 31 years.

Pew Research team also found that men were more likely than women of the same roof with MOM and dad - 40% against 32%.

Pew attributed the slow but steady increase in unemployment, which hit the young especially hard, but also higher university admissions and less marriages.

Source-AFP

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Friday, August 9, 2013

According to a study on three young Americans living at home

At least one in three of the wise were students.

Those aged 18 to 24 are more likely to remain in the proverbial family cocoon, compared to 16 percent of 25 - to 31 years.

Pew Research team also found that men were more likely than women of the same roof with MOM and dad - 40% against 32%.

Pew attributed the slow but steady increase in unemployment, which hit the young especially hard, but also higher university admissions and less marriages.

Source-AFP

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Google popular glass as few Americans

by Bidita Debnath on May 19, 2013 21:57 lifestyle news according to a survey carried out by YouGov, only one in ten Americans are anxious to wear Google Glass, as some are 'socially difficult' and others find it 'too irritating to wear'. Google Glass Popular Only in Few Americans
The report, entitled the 'Google glass Adoption estimates' commissioned by Interactive bite, concluded that even if Google Glass was a competitive price, 38% of respondents do wear them again, reports the New York Daily News.

According to the report, so that 45 per cent of 1000 city smartphone owners "social awkwardness" and "irritable to wear" as reasons that prevent them from using Google Glass, 44 per cent stated that they are not its desirable characteristics.

However, 10% of the respondents who said that they wear the helmet or its cost, 44 percent said using the camera for capturing photos what its characteristic more usable and more interesting, while 39% want to use it to make voice calls and 37 percent for video capture.

Executive Vice President of operations Joseph Farrell said Interactive bite that Google risked exposing disconnect a serious between its avant-garde technology and the main problem that it solves glass.

Prediction of Adoption glass Google revealed several other concerns for glass of Google strategy as the majority of smartphone owners remain convinced that its key features will make it worth buying.

Source-ANI

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Friday, August 16, 2013

Survey Finds Most Americans Don't Want to Live Beyond Age 100

Saturday, August 10, 2013

According to a study on three young Americans living at home

Friday, August 9, 2013

According to a study on three young Americans living at home

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Google popular glass as few Americans