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The contours of population are well known. As a result of birth and mortality trends and of baby boom cohorts, population aged 65 and over and, to even greater extent, population aged 85 and over, are expected to grow very rapidly over next 60 years, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of entire population. Under its middle series projection, U.S. Bureau of Census (Day, 1992) projects that there will be 54 million people aged 65 or over in 2020 (20.2% of population) and 79 million in 2050 (20.6% of population), compared to 31 million (12.5%) in 1990. Baby boomers — 76 million persons born between 1946 and 1964 — will represent about 60 million of projected 70 million people aged 65 or over in 2030. More significantly, given association between advanced and functional disabilities, Bureau projects that by 2050 almost 18 million people (4.6% of population) — virtually all baby boomers — will be 85 and over, compared to 3.1 million (1.3%) in 1990. These trends are combining with political and economic change to spark a growing national debate about implications of of America or, more popularly, anticipated of the baby boom generation. Increasingly, this debate is framed around question of whether U.S. can financially afford to continue its current array of old age entitlements and other aging programs, and if not, how programs should be made affordable. Indeed, for a good many people, including many younger persons who support Social Security and Medicare but doubt whether programs will be available for them in age, first question has been answered. The debate is over extent of changes to be made. U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska), Chair of Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, has called for an honest national conversation about how best to plan for a future in which our population will be fundamentally different from what it was