From 2000-2019 overall life expectancy in the United States increased by 2.3 years, but the increase was not consistent among racial and ethnic groups and by geographic area. In addition, most of these gains were prior to 2010. Those figures come from a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that examined… Continue reading Life Expectancy Shows Racial, Ethnic Differences
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How Healthcare Can Enable Healthy Aging
One of the most pressing issues facing healthcare today is population aging. Sometimes called the “grey wave” or “silver tsunami,” population aging is the shift in average age of a population from younger to older ages. Current projections from the U.S. Census Bureau point to 2030 as a milestone year in which older people will outnumber children for the… Continue reading How Healthcare Can Enable Healthy Aging
How Long Do You Want to Live?
Researchers have found that more than one in six younger people would prefer to die before they are 80. The team of investigators from the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, Mailman School of Public Health, said there no indication that the relationship between preferring a life shorter or longer than average life expectancy depended… Continue reading How Long Do You Want to Live?
Needed: An Accurate Determination of Life Expectancy
Because older adults often don’t accurately predict their own prognosis, health-care providers should have detailed discussions with them to determine their real life expectancy and what they want to do about health interventions, according to new research. The findings, from investigators at UC San Francisco and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, were published inJAMA… Continue reading Needed: An Accurate Determination of Life Expectancy
Prostate-Cancer Treatment Can be Fatal In Less Serious Cases
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a common treatment for advanced prostate cancer, has been linked with increased risk of death in men with localized cancer and longer life expectancies, according researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. In ADT, an injectable or implanted medication is used to disrupt the body’s ability to make testosterone. In patients with advanced… Continue reading Prostate-Cancer Treatment Can be Fatal In Less Serious Cases
The Plus Side of Population Aging
Here at ThirdAge, we’re delighted to spread some good news about the the fact that the population in the U.S. and other developed countries is increasingly older than in the past. Most academic discussions of this trend so far have focused on the potential problems it creates, including challenges to pension systems, economic growth, and… Continue reading The Plus Side of Population Aging