Health at Older Ages
The implications of the significant and ongoing improvements over time in the functional ability of older people, both in the United States and throughout the world, are enormous for individuals and then more broadly in both social and economic terms. This important book provides an overarching framework to understanding the problems that will be created by an aging population and what can be done to address them. Addressed are such issues as: the foundations of disability, what might be done to extend and even accelerate future improvements in functional ability, and how the benefits of decreasing disability among the elderly can be evaluated and quantified in economic terms. Improving the abilities of older people are underlying changes in education and socioeconomic status, medical technologies, and health behavior. Among the results are that people are living longer, their quality of life is higher for more extended periods, they are working at older ages, there may be a reduction in care-giving needed, and likewise with medical care. The value of functional health to individuals, caregivers, society and the economy of these developments would be hard to overstate.
Other Persons: | Cutler, David M. (contributor) |
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Institutions: | University of Chicago Press |
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