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Thursday Oct 04 2007

I saw a show on the BBC recently about aging in the UK. There were several very interesting aspects to the story. First, the population in nursing homes has changed dramatically in the past 20 years: previously, most residents were in their 70s and today most are in their 90s. And most are women—not surprising given World War II and life expectancy trends. The consensus of experts here is that a combination of healthier habits and lifestyles, better medical technologies, and increasing access to healthcare will keep this statistic moving in the direction of more people putting off the problems we normally associate with geriatric disorders and living well into our 90s and even past 100. On the down side, they are also predicting there will be proportionally more people with dementia (several million by their estimates), as well as considerable health problems associated with later life relating to AIDS and other modern viral anomalies.[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging
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