Which of the following has not been identified as a factor that will contribute to the rapid increase in the number of elders over the next several decades?

1. Baby Boomers
2. Control of communicable and infectious disease in the first half of the 1900s
3. Advances in health care during the past 25 years
4. Social Security


ANS: 4

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