While ageist attitudes support the assumptions of apocalyptic demography that influence health care policy, the evidence suggests otherwise, specifically that

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The evidence suggests that it is professional self-interest, rather than demography, which contributes to projections of rising health care expenditure. Ageist attitudes assume that aging inevitably brings about illness and that there will be escalating costs with population aging, but this is not necessarily the case. Additionally, while treatment of illness does incur fiscal costs, the evidence suggests that these costs are not solely due to population aging. Health care providers may require an increase in income to care for the increasing aging population, but this is not a necessary or inevitable outcome of population aging.

While Ageist Attitudes Support the Assumptions of Apocalyptic Demography That