''LIVING TO 100 ! WHAT IS THE SECRET'' HARVARD

Forget about Generation X and Generation Y. Today, the nation’s most intriguing demographic is Generation Roman numeral C—folks age 100 and over. In the United States, the number of centenarians doubled in the 1980s and did so again in the 1990s. The total now exceeds 70,000. By 2050, according to midrange projections, there could be over 800,000 Americans who celebrate the century mark. Studies show the same trend in other industrialized countries and recently in China. Indeed, demographers are now counting the number of supercentenarians, people age 110 and over.

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