摘要: Aging and the non-communicable diseases that accompany it are widely believed to play a vital role in healthcare spending. This chapter outlines how their historical relationship can be studied. It argues since nineteenth century, key facet of modern aging has been change across generations: instead all generations tracking static universal age-profile diseases, different have traced own unique profiles as they had aged. happened partly because faced distinct economic, epidemiologic, political milieus childhood years, whose influence likely endured long afterwards. The reach turn, suggests cost containment socially optimal if boosts life-course aspect aging; and, succeed over term, by improving childhood-linked aspects it.