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Life Expectancy and Income

Wednesday Dec 09 2009

Statisticians have long seen life expectancy rates as being a superficial measure of longevity and quality of life. We know that life expectancy in Canada, for example, is 82 for a woman and 76.9 for a man. Statistics Canada has been drilling down into this data to look beyond mortality, and has now come up with Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) figures. DFLE is 68.6 years, which means most people can expect to live almost a decade with a chronic health condition or significant mental or physical disability before they die.[Read More]

Written by eldering at News

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Life Expectancy

Thursday Sep 03 2009

By Kevin Brown | Bio

Last week I read that life expectancy in the United States has now reached 78 years of age. As reported by Associated Press, a baby born in 2007 can expect to live to the age of 78. The same report noted that heart disease and cancer together were the cause of nearly half of U.S. fatalities, and that Alzheimer's disease has surpassed diabetes to become the sixth leading cause of death. Regardless of how long we can expect to live, everyone has
a date at which time life, as we know it, will come to an end. Whether by natural or unnatural causes, our life on earth will have a conclusion. Wikipedia defines “life expectancy” as

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Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

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