{"id":4092,"date":"2019-12-20T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/803.557.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2019-12-20T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:38:28","slug":"healthcare-2030-part-7_final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/?p=4092","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare 2030 (Part 7_Final)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Healthcare 2030 (Part 7) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In preparation for the upcoming new year, I would like to close our running series on Healthcare 2030.\u00a0 First, I\u2019d like to go back to a brief comment we made in <em>Part 4<\/em> noting an aging population; it is not just a developed world problem, China\u2019s population is also getting rapidly older. \u00a0As we noted, it is just below the U.S. on median age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nmedian age by country: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Japan\n47.3<ul><li>Germany\n47.1<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Italy\n45.5<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>U.S.\n38.1 <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>China\nis 37.4<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems\nthat China has also crossed an important milestone point, in what we have\nmentioned before as the Age Dependency Ratio. &nbsp;Based on the graphs shown below,\nit is obvious that old age is not just a developed world problem. &nbsp;The second graph shows how close China gets to\nJapan as its population ages quickly though 2040 before it stabilizes back out.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"757\" height=\"539\" src=\"http:\/\/803.557.mywebsitetransfer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chart-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chart-1.png 757w, https:\/\/pwer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chart-1-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"482\" src=\"http:\/\/803.557.mywebsitetransfer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chart-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chart-2.png 648w, https:\/\/pwer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/chart-2-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently attended an investor\nconference in Abu Dhabi, and besides the cultural experience, one of the\nbiggest issues of interest was healthcare \u2013 even our archaic healthcare in the\nU.S. &nbsp;What was clearly on most capital allocators\u2019\nminds was how we will address the aging population and the demand on\ninfrastructure.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statistically, the Middle East has a\nmuch younger population. &nbsp;Despite that, even\nin Abu Dhabi they are opening new medical complexes \u2013 including a brand-new\nhospital with over 1,000 beds that looks amazing \u2013 to address the aging\npopulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are convinced that healthcare over the next decade will have a material transformation, and that transformation will be led by technology-infused care, price and service transparency, as well as a system that will yield to consumer demands unlike anything we\u2019ve ever seen before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Noel J. Guillama, President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare 2030 (Part 7) In preparation for the upcoming new year, I would like to close our running series on Healthcare 2030.\u00a0 First, I\u2019d like to go back to a brief comment we made in Part 4 noting an aging population; it is not just a developed world problem, China\u2019s population is also getting rapidly older. \u00a0As we noted, it is just below the U.S. on median age. The median age by country: Japan 47.3 Germany 47.1 Italy 45.5 U.S. 38.1 China is 37.4 It seems that China has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AdobeStock_227220885-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4097,"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}