Growing elderly populace could shift health care

The older-than-65 population in Brown County in the next 25 years is expected to double, and that has health care providers worried that those numbers could overwhelm an already stressed system. According to state health officials, the older-than-65 population in Brown County in the next 25 years will go from 28,757 people to 57,645. Statewide, the senior boom is expected to result in 1.4 million Wisconsin residents of retirement age, up from about 800,000 today. (GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE, 3/7)