ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the two areas in the future of Drug use – Drugs and aging and Drugs and lifestyle. Special attention to Drugs for the aged seemed an obvious choice given the continuing rise in the proportion of "old people" in the population and given their disproportional use of medications. Lifestyle Drugs were selected for attention because they can be quite interesting in their nonmedical implications. Trends in aging with implications for the Drug industry that were noted at the conference were: possible increase in self-medication, high concentrations of institutionalization, and, especially, deficits in memory and cognition. In that regard, immune therapy was postulated as a fertile area for research under the theory that older people lose some of their immune mechanisms. Evans and Kline and their colleagues at the 1967 Conference offered a number of "possibilities" for lifestyle and life-altering Drugs. The Proceedings are an exceedingly rich source of possibilities, predictions, and societal analysis.
