H-SPAN Summit D.C. 2026 | Economic Realities of an Aging Population

Moderator: Carlo Tornatore Panelists: Jay Olshansky, Patricia Heyn, Pam Saunders The fiscal math of an aging population is well documented and largely unaddressed: rising Medicare obligations, a shrinking ratio of workers to retirees, and a long tail of disability and caregiving costs that fall on families. This panel covers what the projections actually show, why extending healthspan changes those numbers in a way that extending lifespan alone does not, and what the return would be on delaying the onset of age related disease across a population.