Aging in America: Impact on health care

For the next 15 years, “baby boomers,” Americans born between the years 1946 and 1964, will turn 65 at a rate of about 10,000 each day.  About 90% of seniors already have at least one chronic disease, like Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease, and 77% have two or more of these diseases.

How do we sustain these rapidly growing numbers? What impact does this have on the American health care system?  Watch this Nightly Business Report on Aging in America to find out.