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| Effects of improved morbidity rates on active life expectancy and eligibility for long-term care services | | Author(s) | Sarah B Laditka, James N Laditka |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 20, no 1, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 39-56 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Life expectancy tables ; Health services ; Services ; Long term ; Needs [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors use data from the 1984-1990 US Longitudinal Study of Aging and microsimulation techniques to examine the effects of better health on active life expectancy and eligibility for long-term care services. Results show that better health increases total life expectancy (TLE), the proportion of life spent unimpaired, and the amount of time spent unimpaired. Women experience larger proportional increases in active life expectancy under assumptions of better health. However better health decreases the proportion of men eligible for long-term care services more than it decreases the eligible proportion of women. The results reinforce the importance of focusing on policies designed to promote healthy lifestyles and to reduce the prevalence of chronic conditions. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010724203 A |
| Classmark | CC: S7: L: I: 4Q: IK: 3J: 7T |
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