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Topic- Research
The financial value of longer lives, with less disability
Healthy life expectancy, meaning the years a person can expect to live in good health, may be more important to most people than life expectancy, the years a person may live. Earlier this year, analyses in ICAA Research Review showed that lifestyle choices often led to “longer lives with less health” (13[26] July 2013) and that disability was most common in the last two years of life (13[24] July 2013).
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Canadian caregivers don a chauffeur's cap
Among the 8.1 million caregivers in Canada in 2012, 44% were ages 45-64 years, representing the largest age group. Parents most often received the care, with caregivers take care of their own parents (39%) or their in-laws (9%). Caregivers provided support for individuals with age-related needs (28%), cancer (11%), cardiovascular disease (9%) and mental illness (7%).
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More caregivers needed to support aging Boomers
As the large population of Boomers (born 1946-1964) ages, the assumption is that a portion of this population will need caregiving when they reach the oldest ages. Today, family caregivers provide much of the support needed by older relatives, but the Boomers had few children than past generations, and family members no longer live near one another.
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Healthier till the end of life
The population of “older adults” is so large that a single description cannot fit everyone.
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Hawaii best for healthy life expectancy
An analysis of 2007-2009 data from two large US surveillance studies looked at healthy life expectancy at age 65 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Healthy life expectancy estimates the healthy years that a person can expect to live. The estimate is based on current mortality rates and population health status.
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Longer lives with less health often due to lifestyles
In the first issue of 2013, ICAA Research Review reported the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, a series of seven papers published in The Lancet.
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