While Glenn Kramon’s sentiments are exactly right — policies and institutions created in another era are not fit for 21st-century demographics — I’d like to make two essential points.

Mr. Henderson notes Paul M. Romer’s ideas relating the structure of incentives to innovation using the profoundly crucial role patent policy has played in pharmaceutical innovation. But in the 21st century governments have countered the otherwise positive impact of patents with all manner of pharmaceutical price controls.

‘Big, beige and boring’ is out. A new emphasis on aesthetics is in, and it could transform elder tech.

Occupational therapist and dean of the Perdana University School of Occupational Therapy (PUScOT), Professor Nathan Vytialingam, 65, was conferred the World Federation of Occupational Therapists Honorary Fellowship at the 17th Congress 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Yannis Palaiologos’s “Greece’s Bailout Ends, but Prospects Still Grim” (op-ed, Aug. 20) doesn’t have to be prophesy if Greece continues the more profound change of aligning 20th century public policy and social and economic institutions to 21st century age demography.