The increase in longevity has caused some to favor higher eligibility ages for Social Security.
The report attributes the increase in longevity to better medical services and greater health consciousness.
Improvements in health care are reflected by the increase in longevity for people in England.
Tim Pethick, a spokesman for the company Saga, which campaigns for older people, said the increase in longevity should be welcomed.
It's startling to contemplate a tangible increase in longevity over such a short space of time, because our mental image of this process is long-term and linear.
To have one drug that postponed many degenerative diseases in people would be a significant advance, he said, even without any increase in longevity.
Whether the monkeys were relatively young or in their teens at the start of the study, Mattison's team found no increase in longevity for the calorie-restricted animals.
The increase in longevity has occurred slowly, but has reached a level that requires a fundamental redefinition of the social and financial institutions that support it.
The increase in longevity over recent years has been a major achievement, but it also means we need to shift our focus to helping people to stay as well and independent as possible for as long as possible.
With aging population, increase in longevity and decrease in the number of qualified donors, the need to find alternative solutions to current organ replacement methods is rapidly becoming a critical issue.
Experiment 2 In this experiment we cancel the effect of the increase in longevity.
