How an age shift in Southern California’s population could change everything

A long-predicted demographic shift, in which older people are growing in numbers and in clout, is starting to reach high gear.

More gray and balding heads? More daily medications? A collective hankering for comfortable shoes?

We’re about to have it all.

We’re going to have more Social Security and Medicare payouts; more senior centers, more demand for hospital rooms and dementia experts. More families soon will be living with three and even four generations under the same roof. There will be more wisdom, too, and more need.

In short, America and Southern California in particular are about to include more older people, a lot more.

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