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...

<DIV>In recent years, the hospital industry has been undergoing massive change and reorganization with technological innovations and the spread of managed care. As a result, the total number of hospitals countrywide has been declining, and a growing number of not-for-profit hospitals have converted...</div>

<DIV><DIV>Americans are living longer—and staying healthier longer—than ever before. Despite the rapid disappearance of pensions and health care benefits for retirees, older people are healthier and better off than they were twenty years ago. In <I>Health at Older Ages</I>, a distinguished team of economists...</i></div></div>

<DIV>With the United States and other developed nations spending as much as 14 percent of their GDP on medical care, economists and policy analysts are asking what these countries are getting in return. Yet it remains frustrating and difficult to measure the productivity of the medical care service...</div>