You would think countries with looming demographic crises due to aging populations (Japan comes to mind) would be pouring money into anti-aging research.
Japan is (probably the only) country where a minister from the government is publicly saying to it's old population to "die faster already, stop wasting resources of the country". Somehow Japan's culture does not seem to be really fit for this kind of research ;).
Wouldn't that make it worse? But I feel Japan will deal with the ageing population the way they deal with everything else. Glorious self-sacrifice for order and the group.
It'd make it better. Biologically old people are expensive, since aging tends to come with all sorts of horrible degenerative diseases. Reverse those and your old people are cheaper. If your treatments are really effective you might even be able to put them back to work.
