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Why it's cool to care

Today, there are more 80-year-olds than 18-year-olds in our nation. By 2020 5% of the population will be over 80.

Brian Edwards

A couple of decades ago the St. Paul’s Methodist Seminary in Kansas established a professorship in gerontology — the study of old age. The reason for this was that some students found themselves pastoring churches where 100% of the congregation are over 65.