Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/08/a-reduction-in-the-time-spent-in-poor-health-at-the-end-of-life-despite-increased-life-expectancy/
Today’s open access paper caught my eye for the assertion that time spent in poor health at the end of life is actually decreasing over the recent period of decades of slowly increased life expectancy. This is not the conventional wisdom, but data is data, at least for this sizable study population. Compression of morbidity, a shortening of the period of age-related disease in later life, is a stated goal for much of the aging research community, but whether or not compression of morbidity is either (a) possible, or (b) already happening in at least some populations is a much debated topic.
If aging is simply slowed outright, then the period of disability and increased mortality could in principle be more drawn out, and less harmful for most of that time. But if aging is postponed rather than slowed then the period of disability would not be lengthened or improved. Given the w…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/08/a-reduction-in-the-time-spent-in-poor-health-at-the-end-of-life-despite-increased-life-expectancy/
Today’s open access paper caught my eye for the assertion that time spent in poor health at the end of life is actually decreasing over the recent period of decades of slowly increased life expectancy. This is not the conventional wisdom, but data is data, at least for this sizable study population. Compression of morbidity, a shortening of the period of age-related disease in later life, is a stated goal for much of the aging research community, but whether or not compression of morbidity is either (a) possible, or (b) already happening in at least some populations is a much debated topic.
If aging is simply slowed outright, then the period of disability and increased mortality could in principle be more drawn out, and less harmful for most of that time. But if aging is postponed rather than slowed then the period of disability would not be lengthened or improved. Given the w…
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