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Until very recently, most of the increase has been due to better survival in childhood and youth, rather than the increased prolongation of middle age into old age.
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Since 1995, Dr. Ryff and her Wisconsin team have been studying some 7, 000 individuals and examining factors that influence health and well-being from middle age through old age in a study called MIDUS, or the Mid-Life in the U.S. National Study of Americans, funded by the National Institute on Aging.
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Unlike developing countries, which age from the bottom up because of a falling birth rate, rich countries age from the middle, adding old people with fewer workers to support them, and even fewer children to join the workforce.
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Lots of people study childhood, or adolescence, or youth, or old age, but it seemed to be left up to me to study middle age.
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Also, last I checked, over 50 is not as old as it used to be and middle age to senior status does not preclude one from being hungry and full of energy and ambition.
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But Dell is now a 27 year old company, and Michael is cruising into middle age, a touch of gray in his hair, and now engineering the shift of his company into enterprise services and systems.
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Many were once middle class but, due to illness, are without financial resources in old age.
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The whole process of middle age seems deeply suspicious as it doesn't seem to be about getting old.
BBC: Viewpoint: Just what is middle age?
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Given that the period opening up between midlife and anything resembling old age is growing and could be as long as the middle years in duration it's worth experimenting with new roles.
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Yet these middle-age subjects are also wondrous variations on the theme of their 7-year-old selves.
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