JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: Every day about 6,000 people in this country turn 65 years old, and a new survey finds out that most folks hope to grow much older than that, much more gracefully. CNN's Elaine Quijano has our report today.</s>ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you had a choice, how long would you like to live?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I kind of go by my family history, and people pretty much age really well and live very long lives, so I hope to make it to my mid 80's.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have a very cavalier attitude about it. When it's your time, it's your time.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Eighty years.</s>QUIJANO (on camera): Why?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because I believe in the quality of life as opposed to quantity.</s>QUIJANO (voice-over): But those expectations aren't the norm. The Alliance for Aging Research surveyed 1,000 people, from Gen X-ers to the World War II generation, and found almost two out three Americans wants to see their 100th birthday.</s>DANIEL PERRY, ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH: Simple longevity and adding years is not the objective. They also have very high expectations that there will be advances in time for them in the area of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, brittle bones.</s>QUIJANO (on camera): The alliance plans to lobby members of Congress to increase funding for medical research on aging. Already, they have a big backer, Louisiana Senator John Breaux, the chairman of the Senate special committee on aging.</s>SEN. JOHN BREAUX (D-LA), SPECIAL CMTE. ON AGING: We are going to support full funding of the National Institute of Health, the research that they're going to be doing in the areas of aging.</s>QUIJANO (voice-over): They survey concluded that Americans have a positive outlook on life in their later years, and expect to live longer and be more active than previous generations. Elaine Quijano, CNN, Washington.
Survey Shows Americans Want to Live Longer