1.   Marketers and demographers struggle to create new labels for a graying population that is living longer, working longer and playing harder.

2.   Novels, and realistic novels especially, are supposed to tell us about ourselves, and we are, as the experts keep reminding us, a graying population.

3.   Our national conversation about aging must expand beyond discussing how to care for a graying population.

4.   The declining number of young people choosing to enter the profession and an increasingly graying population are headed for a demographic collision, the report concludes.

5.   As the work force continues to shrink, covering the health and retirement costs of the graying population is one of the biggest challenges facing the government.

6.   But Eufaula is content to keep growing its graying population, he said.