In Health Debate, the Oldest Voices Are Also the Faintest - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com

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In the New York Times, Jane Gross writes:

These reports routinely characterize the elderly as those ages 65 and over. Yet to a great degree, the spiraling costs of health care in this country are being driven by a far more select group: those 85 and older. And contrary to what the polls say, it’s not clear that the old-old, with the wisdom borne of perhaps too much experience with the health care system and its excesses, are as opposed to these changes as the 60-somethings or 70-somethings. Indeed, we don’t really know what the old-old think at all.

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