Jay Olshansky: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois Chicago
- Quoted on
- Elderly care & frailty
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“These percentage contributions must be translated into something meaningful in order to be useful and understandable. If it leads to an average life expectancy at birth of higher than 87 years, it's likely to be unrealistic.”
Where Jay Olshansky has been quoted
- At least 80% responsibility for ill health in old age down to individual, study saystheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
Related media coverage
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