{"id":927,"date":"2014-10-01T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plinylives.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2014-10-01T13:41:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:41:39","slug":"here-is-another-benefit-of-an-aging-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Here is another benefit of an aging population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I reported on a s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0108501\">cientific study of Germany&#8217;s aging population<\/a>. The researchers found that seniors contribute less to climate change and that they result in other positive changes in society.<\/p>\n<p>Now the article below from the Washington Post blog citing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0108501\">same study<\/a> describes other\u00a0benefits that increasing numbers of seniors bring. They spur innovation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why an aging population may be good for innovation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/innovations\/wp\/2014\/09\/30\/why-an-aging-population-may-be-good-for-innovation\/\">Why an aging population may be good for innovation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no reason that the increasing numbers of baby boomers have to be a burden on society. They might turn out to be a blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I reported on a scientific study of Germany&#8217;s aging population. The researchers found that seniors contribute less to climate change and that they result in other positive changes in society. Now the article below from the Washington Post blog citing the same study describes other\u00a0benefits that increasing numbers of seniors bring. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-information","tag-benefits-of-an-aging-population","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}