biological age, morbidity, or proximity to death as cost drivers are debated. Age-associated HCE growth can be studied across two ….g. 66 to 70 year olds) at different time points (age-class analysis). Using health insurance claims data including morbidity … and mortality information, HCE growth was analyzed in Swiss mandatory health insurance for the years 1996 to 2011 and …

is spent in good or in poor health will drastically influence the development of health care costs as morbidity status … prolonged lifespan is associated with a compression or an extension of morbidity is still sparse and inconclusive. In this paper …

improvements using the Human Mortality Database. The results show a lower optimal purchase of LTC insurance in the morbidity … alternative morbidity scenarios (i.e., morbidity compression/expansion and dynamic equilibrium) influences retirees’ optimal … health state transition matrices estimated from the U.S. Health and Retirement Survey dataset and adjust mortality …