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| Mortality trends of elderly people in Taiwan from 1974 to 1994 | | Author(s) | Kai-Kuen Leung, Li-Yu Tang, Wei-Chu Chie |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 28, no 2, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 199-203 |
| Keywords | Death rate [statistics] ; Cancer ; Stroke ; Heart disease ; Diabetes ; Falls ; Taiwan. |
| Annotation | The hypothesis that disability and death will eventually be compressed to a period late in life was examined, by comparing life expectancy, causes of death, and probability of death for people at birth, at age 65, and at age 85 for both sexes from 1974 to 1994 using data from Taiwan government statistics. In the past 20 years, there has been a substantial gain in life expectancy, especially for men aged 85 and over. Mortality due to stroke, ischaemic heart disease, hypertension and chronic pulmonary disease has declined. There has been a steep increase in cancer deaths and deaths associated with diabetes mellitus. Tuberculosis and injury-related deaths have declined, but pneumonia deaths have increased. For older people, the probability of dying from cancer and ischaemic heart disease has increased with time. However, the probability of dying from stroke has decreased. Although there was a decrease in probability of deaths associated with falls, there was an increase of deaths due to "frailty" (as judged by falls, pneumonia and septicaemia). This implies that the expanding older population in Taiwan has been suffering from poorer health in the later stages of life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990429008 A |
| Classmark | S5: CK: CQA: CQH: CPD: OLF: 7DP |
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